Recent advances and perspectives on production of value-added organic acids through metabolic engineering

H Liu, Y Jin, R Zhang, Y Ning, Y Yu, P Xu, L Deng… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic acids are important consumable materials with a wide range of applications in the
food, biopolymer and chemical industries. The global consumer organic acids market is …

DCEO biotechnology: tools to design, construct, evaluate, and optimize the metabolic pathway for biosynthesis of chemicals

X Chen, C Gao, L Guo, G Hu, Q Luo, J Liu… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chemical synthesis is a well established route for producing many chemicals on a large
scale, but some drawbacks still exist in this process, such as unstable intermediates …

Periplasmic biomineralization for semi-artificial photosynthesis

Y Lin, J Shi, W Feng, J Yue, Y Luo, S Chen, B Yang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Semiconductor-based biointerfaces are typically established either on the surface of the
plasma membrane or within the cytoplasm. In Gram-negative bacteria, the periplasmic …

Metabolic engineering of Pichia pastoris for malic acid production from methanol

F Guo, Z Dai, W Peng, S Zhang, J Zhou… - Biotechnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The application of rational design in reallocating metabolic flux to accumulate desired
chemicals is always restricted by the native regulatory network. In this study, recombinant …

Recent advances in microbial production of L-malic acid

N Wu, J Zhang, Y Chen, Q Xu, P Song, Y Li… - Applied Microbiology …, 2022 - Springer
Over the last few decades, increasing concerns regarding fossil fuel depletion and
excessive CO2 emissions have led to extensive fundamental studies and industrial trials …

Microbial cell factories based on filamentous bacteria, yeasts, and fungi

Q Ding, C Ye - Microbial Cell Factories, 2023 - Springer
Background Advanced DNA synthesis, biosensor assembly, and genetic circuit
development in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering have reinforced the application …

Microbial biosynthesis of L-malic acid and related metabolic engineering strategies: advances and prospects

Z Wei, Y Xu, Q Xu, W Cao, H Huang… - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Malic acid, a four-carbon dicarboxylic acid, is widely used in the food, chemical and medical
industries. As an intermediate of the TCA cycle, malic acid is one of the most promising …

Microbial biosynthesis and secretion of l-malic acid and its applications

Z Chi, ZP Wang, GY Wang, I Khan… - Critical reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract l-Malic acid has many uses in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical and
medical industries. It can be produced by one-step fermentation, enzymatic transformation of …

Engineering Escherichia coli lifespan for enhancing chemical production

L Guo, W Diao, C Gao, G Hu, Q Ding, C Ye, X Chen… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Industrial chemical production from renewable feedstocks by microbial cell factories
provides a promising avenue towards sustainability. However, the small size of bacterial …

Enhanced squalene biosynthesis in Yarrowia lipolytica based on metabolically engineered acetyl-CoA metabolism

YY Huang, XX Jian, YB Lv, KQ Nian, Q Gao… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
As a bioactive triterpenoid, squalene is widely used in the food industry, cosmetics, and
pharmacology. Squalene's major commercial sources are the liver oil of deep-sea sharks …