Concerns over climate change have necessitated a rethinking of our transportation
infrastructure. One possible alternative to carbon-polluting fossil fuels is biofuels produced …

The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

Plant natural products (PNPs) are specialized metabolites with diverse bioactivities. They
are extensively used in the pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical and food industries. PNPs are …

The main focus in development of yeast cell factories has generally been on establishing
optimal activity of heterologous pathways and further metabolic engineering of the host …

Using lignocellulosic biomass for the production of renewable biofuel provides a sustainable
and promising solution to the crisis of energy and environment. However, the processes of …

Microorganisms directly and indirectly contribute to production of diverse biofuels.
Heterotrophic microorganisms are being used for commercial production of biofuels such as …

Because they mainly do not involve chemical changes, membrane transporters have been a
Cinderella subject in the biotechnology of small molecule production, but this is a serious …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is widely employed as a cell factory for the production of biofuels.
However, product toxicity has hindered improvements in biofuel production. Here, we …

Background Limonene is an important biologically active natural product widely used in the
food, cosmetic, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries. However, the low abundance of …

Background Product toxicity is one of the bottlenecks for microbial production of biofuels,
and transporter-mediated biofuel secretion offers a promising strategy to solve this problem …