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 …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic control in metabolic engineering: Theories, tools, and applications

CJ Hartline, AC Schmitz, Y Han, F Zhang - Metabolic engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Metabolic engineering has allowed the production of a diverse number of valuable
chemicals using microbial organisms. Many biological challenges for improving bio …

Control theory meets synthetic biology

D Del Vecchio, AJ Dy, Y Qian - Journal of The Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The past several years have witnessed an increased presence of control theoretic concepts
in synthetic biology. This review presents an organized summary of how these control …

Biosystems design by machine learning

MJ Volk, I Lourentzou, S Mishra, LT Vo… - ACS synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biosystems such as enzymes, pathways, and whole cells have been increasingly explored
for biotechnological applications. However, the intricate connectivity and resulting …

Formulation, construction and analysis of kinetic models of metabolism: A review of modelling frameworks

PA Saa, LK Nielsen - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
Kinetic models are critical to predict the dynamic behaviour of metabolic networks.
Mechanistic kinetic models for large networks remain uncommon due to the difficulty of fitting …

Current and future modalities of dynamic control in metabolic engineering

MA Lalwani, EM Zhao, JL Avalos - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Two dynamic control modalities have been developed for metabolic
engineering.•The most common modality uses two phases of fermentation: growth and …

ROS networks: designs, aging, Parkinson's disease and precision therapies

A N. Kolodkin, RP Sharma, AM Colangelo… - NPJ systems biology …, 2020 - nature.com
How the network around ROS protects against oxidative stress and Parkinson's disease
(PD), and how processes at the minutes timescale cause disease and aging after decades …

Genome-scale architecture of small molecule regulatory networks and the fundamental trade-off between regulation and enzymatic activity

E Reznik, D Christodoulou, JE Goldford, E Briars… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Metabolic flux is in part regulated by endogenous small molecules that modulate the
catalytic activity of an enzyme, eg, allosteric inhibition. In contrast to transcriptional …

Switchable biocatalytic reactions controlled by interfacial pH changes produced by orthogonal biocatalytic processes

PK Wells, O Smutok, A Melman… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enzymes immobilized on a nano-structured surface were used to switch the activity of one
enzyme by a local pH change produced by another enzyme. Immobilized amyloglucosidase …

Programmable gene regulation for metabolic engineering using decoy transcription factor binding sites

T Wang, N Tague, SA Whelan… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Transcription factor decoy binding sites are short DNA sequences that can titrate a
transcription factor away from its natural binding site, therefore regulating gene expression …