Enzyme-based optical biosensors for organophosphate class of pesticide detection

J Kaur, PK Singh - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organophosphorus pesticides, widely used as insecticides for crop protection, are classified
as an extremely toxic class of chemical compounds by the World Health Organization …

Tailor-made transcriptional biosensors for optimizing microbial cell factories

B De Paepe, G Peters, P Coussement… - Journal of Industrial …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Monitoring cellular behavior and eventually properly adapting cellular processes is key to
handle the enormous complexity of today's metabolic engineering questions. Hence …

A microbial electrochemical technology to detect and degrade organophosphate pesticides

AA Karbelkar, EE Reynolds, R Ahlmark… - ACS Central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organophosphate (OP) pesticides cause hundreds of illnesses and deaths annually.
Unfortunately, exposures are often detected by monitoring degradation products in blood …

A novel biosensor-based method for the detection of p-nitrophenol in agricultural soil

Z Ma, Y Li, Z Lu, J Pan, M Li - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Directly measurement of the bioavailable concentration of soil contaminants is essential for
their accurate risk assessment. In this study, we successfully modified and identified the key …

Directed evolution of the PcaV allosteric transcription factor to generate a biosensor for aromatic aldehydes

L FM Machado, A Currin, N Dixon - Journal of biological engineering, 2019 - Springer
Background Transcription factor-based biosensors are useful tools for the detection of
metabolites and industrially valuable molecules, and present many potential applications in …

On-site screening method for bioavailability assessment of the organophosphorus pesticide, methyl parathion, and its primary metabolite in soils by paper strip …

Z Ma, Y Li, C Lu, M Li - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
An important public concern worldwide is soil pollution caused by organophosphorus
pesticides and their primary metabolites. To protect the public's health, screening these …

Transcription factor engineering for high-throughput strain evolution and organic acid bioproduction: a review

JW Li, XY Zhang, H Wu, YP Bai - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Metabolic regulation of gene expression for the microbial production of fine chemicals, such
as organic acids, is an important research topic in post-genomic metabolic engineering. In …

Engineering transcription factor XylS for sensing phthalic acid and terephthalic acid: an application for enzyme evolution

J Li, MRH Nina, X Zhang, Y Bai - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) and phthalate esters (PAEs) are used extensively as
plastics and plasticizers. Enzymatic degradation of PET and PAEs has drawn great attention …

Discovering novel hydrolases from hot environments

R Wohlgemuth, J Littlechild, D Monti, K Schnorr… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Novel hydrolases from hot and other extreme environments showing appropriate
performance and/or novel functionalities and new approaches for their systematic screening …

Modular tuning engineering and versatile applications of genetically encoded biosensors

J Zhang, Q Pang, Q Wang, Q Qi… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Genetically encoded biosensors have a diverse range of detectable signals and potential
applications in many fields, including metabolism control and high-throughput screening …