Recent trends in metabolic engineering of microbial chemical factories

Y Liu, J Nielsen - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microbial cell factories can be tailored for producing certain 'drop-in'chemicals.•
Metabolic engineering has greatly enhanced the development of microbial cell …

Can the world's favorite fruit, tomato, provide an effective biosynthetic chassis for high-value metabolites?

Y Li, H Wang, Y Zhang, C Martin - Plant Cell Reports, 2018 - Springer
Tomato has a relatively short growth cycle (fruit ready to pick within 65–85 days from
planting) and a relatively high yield (the average for globe tomatoes is 3–9 kg fruit per plant …

Transcriptional control of photosynthetic capacity: conservation and divergence from Arabidopsis to rice

P Wang, RW Hendron, S Kelly - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthesis is one of the most important biological processes on Earth. It provides the
consumable energy upon which almost all organisms are dependent, and modulates the …

[HTML][HTML] Diatom isoprenoids: Advances and biotechnological potential

A Athanasakoglou, SC Kampranis - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Diatoms are among the most productive and ecologically important groups of microalgae in
contemporary oceans. Due to their distinctive metabolic and physiological features, they …

Defining optimal electron transfer partners for light-driven cytochrome P450 reactions

SB Mellor, MH Vinde, AZ Nielsen, GT Hanke… - Metabolic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Plants and cyanobacteria are promising heterologous hosts for metabolic engineering, and
particularly suited for expression of cytochrome P450 (P450s), enzymes that catalyse key …

Plant diterpenoid metabolism for manufacturing the biopharmaceuticals of tomorrow: prospects and challenges

S Mafu, P Zerbe - Phytochemistry Reviews, 2018 - Springer
Plant diterpenoids encompass a diverse group of more than ten thousand specialized
(traditionally termed 'secondary') metabolites with significant ecological functions and …

Energetic considerations for engineering novel biochemistries in photosynthetic organisms

DD Strand, BJ Walker - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Humans have been harnessing biology to make valuable compounds for generations. From
beer and biofuels to pharmaceuticals, biology provides an efficient alternative to industrial …

Prospects of chloroplast metabolic engineering for developing nutrient-dense food crops

N Tanwar, SS Arya, JE Rookes, DM Cahill… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Addressing nutritional deficiencies in food crops through biofortification is a sustainable
approach to tackling malnutrition. Biofortification is continuously being attempted through …

Upstream biomanufacturing of pharmaceutical colchicine

G Sivakumar - Critical reviews in biotechnology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The plant-based colchicine potentially affects major diseases such as cardiovascular events,
cancers and gout. Gloriosa superba seeds are a conventional pharmaceutical source of …

IntEResting structures: formation and applications of organized smooth endoplasmic reticulum in plant cells

A Sandor, MD Fricker, V Kriechbaumer… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an organelle with remarkable plasticity, capable of
rapidly changing its structure to accommodate different functions based on intra-and …