Microbial production of advanced biofuels

J Keasling, H Garcia Martin, TS Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Concerns over climate change have necessitated a rethinking of our transportation
infrastructure. One possible alternative to carbon-polluting fossil fuels is biofuels produced …

Escherichia coli as a host for metabolic engineering

S Pontrelli, TY Chiu, EI Lan, FYH Chen, P Chang… - Metabolic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past century, Escherichia coli has become one of the best studied organisms on
earth. Features such as genetic tractability, favorable growth conditions, well characterized …

Rewriting yeast central carbon metabolism for industrial isoprenoid production

AL Meadows, KM Hawkins, Y Tsegaye, E Antipov… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
A bio-based economy has the potential to provide sustainable substitutes for petroleum-
based products and new chemical building blocks for advanced materials. We previously …

Fuelling the future: microbial engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels

JC Liao, L Mi, S Pontrelli, S Luo - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Global climate change linked to the accumulation of greenhouse gases has caused
concerns regarding the use of fossil fuels as the major energy source. To mitigate climate …

Light-driven CO2 sequestration in Escherichia coli to achieve theoretical yield of chemicals

G Hu, Z Li, D Ma, C Ye, L Zhang, C Gao, L Liu… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
CO2 sequestration engineering is an attractive strategy for achieving carbon-and energy-
efficient bioproduction. However, the efficiency of heterotrophic CO2 sequestration is limited …

In vitro prototyping and rapid optimization of biosynthetic enzymes for cell design

AS Karim, QM Dudley, A Juminaga, Y Yuan… - Nature Chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
The design and optimization of biosynthetic pathways for industrially relevant, non-model
organisms is challenging due to transformation idiosyncrasies, reduced numbers of …

Constructing a synthetic pathway for acetyl-coenzyme A from one-carbon through enzyme design

X Lu, Y Liu, Y Yang, S Wang, Q Wang, X Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Acetyl-CoA is a fundamental metabolite for all life on Earth, and is also a key starting point
for the biosynthesis of a variety of industrial chemicals and natural products. Here we design …

The formate bio-economy

O Yishai, SN Lindner, JG de la Cruz… - Current Opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Formate is an ideal mediator between the physicochemical and biological
realms.•Formate can be efficiently produced from various highly available …

Biotechnological upcycling of plastic waste and other non-conventional feedstocks in a circular economy

LM Blank, T Narancic, J Mampel, T Tiso… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Non-conventional feedstocks can contribute to a circular chemical industry.•Non-
conventional feedstocks open stoichiometric opportunities for niche applications.•Plastic …

Data integration in the era of omics: current and future challenges

D Gomez-Cabrero, I Abugessaisa, D Maier… - BMC systems …, 2014 - Springer
To integrate heterogeneous and large omics data constitutes not only a conceptual
challenge but a practical hurdle in the daily analysis of omics data. With the rise of novel …