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 …

[HTML][HTML] Automating the design-build-test-learn cycle towards next-generation bacterial cell factories

N Gurdo, DC Volke, D McCloskey, PI Nikel - New Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Automation is playing an increasingly significant role in synthetic biology. Groundbreaking
technologies, developed over the past 20 years, have enormously accelerated the …

OptCom: a multi-level optimization framework for the metabolic modeling and analysis of microbial communities

AR Zomorrodi, CD Maranas - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Microorganisms rarely live isolated in their natural environments but rather function in
consolidated and socializing communities. Despite the growing availability of high …

Computationally efficient flux variability analysis

S Gudmundsson, I Thiele - BMC bioinformatics, 2010 - Springer
Background Flux variability analysis is often used to determine robustness of metabolic
models in various simulation conditions. However, its use has been somehow limited by the …

OptForce: an optimization procedure for identifying all genetic manipulations leading to targeted overproductions

S Ranganathan, PF Suthers… - PLoS computational …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Computational procedures for predicting metabolic interventions leading to the
overproduction of biochemicals in microbial strains are widely in use. However, these …

Genome-scale metabolic network modeling results in minimal interventions that cooperatively force carbon flux towards malonyl-CoA

P Xu, S Ranganathan, ZL Fowler, CD Maranas… - Metabolic …, 2011 - Elsevier
Malonyl-coenzyme A is an important precursor metabolite for the biosynthesis of
polyketides, flavonoids and biofuels. However, malonyl-CoA naturally synthesized in …

The growing scope of applications of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions using Escherichia coli

AM Feist, BØ Palsson - Nature biotechnology, 2008 - nature.com
The number and scope of methods developed to interrogate and use metabolic network
reconstructions has significantly expanded over the past 15 years. In particular, Escherichia …

Engineering biological systems using automated biofoundries

R Chao, S Mishra, T Si, H Zhao - Metabolic Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Engineered biological systems such as genetic circuits and microbial cell factories have
promised to solve many challenges in the modern society. However, the artisanal processes …

Genome-scale dynamic modeling of the competition between Rhodoferax and Geobacter in anoxic subsurface environments

K Zhuang, M Izallalen, P Mouser, H Richter… - The ISME …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The advent of rapid complete genome sequencing, and the potential to capture this
information in genome-scale metabolic models, provide the possibility of comprehensively …

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 …