Metabolic engineering: methodologies and applications

MJ Volk, VG Tran, SI Tan, S Mishra, Z Fatma… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metabolic engineering aims to improve the production of economically valuable molecules
through the genetic manipulation of microbial metabolism. While the discipline is a little over …

Natural products of pentacyclic triterpenoids: from discovery to heterologous biosynthesis

Y Li, J Wang, L Li, W Song, M Li, X Hua… - Natural Product …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2022 Pentacyclic triterpenoids are important natural bioactive substances
that are widely present in plants and fungi. They have significant medicinal efficacy, play an …

Metabolic burden: cornerstones in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering applications

G Wu, Q Yan, JA Jones, YJ Tang, SS Fong… - Trends in …, 2016 - cell.com
Engineering cell metabolism for bioproduction not only consumes building blocks and
energy molecules (eg, ATP) but also triggers energetic inefficiency inside the cell. The …

Whole-cell biocatalysts by design

B Lin, Y Tao - Microbial cell factories, 2017 - Springer
Whole-cell biocatalysts provide unique advantages and have been widely used for the
efficient biosynthesis of value-added fine and bulk chemicals, as well as pharmaceutically …

Semi-synthetic artemisinin: a model for the use of synthetic biology in pharmaceutical development

CJ Paddon, JD Keasling - Nature reviews microbiology, 2014 - nature.com
Recent developments in synthetic biology, combined with continued progress in systems
biology and metabolic engineering, have enabled the engineering of microorganisms to …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocytic ApoE reprograms neuronal cholesterol metabolism and histone-acetylation-mediated memory

X Li, J Zhang, D Li, C He, K He, T Xue, L Wan, C Zhang… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Astrocytes metabolically interact with neighboring neurons by providing multiple substances
to neurons. How astrocytes regulate neural functions via altering the neuronal metabolic …

Production of amorphadiene in yeast, and its conversion to dihydroartemisinic acid, precursor to the antimalarial agent artemisinin

PJ Westfall, DJ Pitera, JR Lenihan… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Malaria, caused by Plasmodium sp, results in almost one million deaths and over 200
million new infections annually. The World Health Organization has recommended that …

Engineering dynamic pathway regulation using stress-response promoters

RH Dahl, F Zhang, J Alonso-Gutierrez, E Baidoo… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Heterologous pathways used in metabolic engineering may produce intermediates toxic to
the cell. Dynamic control of pathway enzymes could prevent the accumulation of these …

Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux

JE Dueber, GC Wu, GR Malmirchegini, TS Moon… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Engineered metabolic pathways constructed from enzymes heterologous to the production
host often suffer from flux imbalances, as they typically lack the regulatory mechanisms …

Modular optimization of multi-gene pathways for fatty acids production in E. coli

P Xu, Q Gu, W Wang, L Wong, AGW Bower… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Microbial fatty acid-derived fuels have emerged as promising alternatives to petroleum-
based transportation fuels. Here we report a modular engineering approach that …