Microbial production of natural and non-natural flavonoids: pathway engineering, directed evolution and systems/synthetic biology

RP Pandey, P Parajuli, MAG Koffas, JK Sohng - Biotechnology advances, 2016 - Elsevier
In this review, we address recent advances made in pathway engineering, directed
evolution, and systems/synthetic biology approaches employed in the production and …

Benzylisoquinoline alkaloid metabolism: a century of discovery and a brave new world

JM Hagel, PJ Facchini - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) are a structurally diverse group of plant specialized
metabolites with a long history of investigation. Although the ecophysiological functions of …

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 …

Integrated omics analysis of specialized metabolism in medicinal plants

A Rai, K Saito, M Yamazaki - The Plant Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Medicinal plants are a rich source of highly diverse specialized metabolites with important
pharmacological properties. Until recently, plant biologists were limited in their ability to …

Optimizing oleaginous yeast cell factories for flavonoids and hydroxylated flavonoids biosynthesis

Y Lv, M Marsafari, M Koffas, J Zhou, P Xu - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Plants possess myriads of secondary metabolites with a broad spectrum of health-promoting
benefits. To date, plant extraction is still the primary route to produce high-value natural …

Compartmentalization and transporter engineering strategies for terpenoid synthesis

K Jin, H Xia, Y Liu, J Li, G Du, X Lv, L Liu - Microbial Cell Factories, 2022 - Springer
Microbial cell factories for terpenoid synthesis form a less expensive and more environment-
friendly approach than chemical synthesis and extraction, and are thus being regarded as …

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 …

Generation of structurally novel short carotenoids and study of their biological activity

SH Kim, MS Kim, BY Lee, PC Lee - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Recent research interest in phytochemicals has consistently driven the efforts in the
metabolic engineering field toward microbial production of various carotenoids. In spite of …

Promoter-Library-Based Pathway Optimization for Efficient (2S)-Naringenin Production from p-Coumaric Acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

S Gao, H Zhou, J Zhou, J Chen - Journal of Agricultural and Food …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pathway optimization plays an important role in fine-tuning metabolic pathways. In most
conditions, more than three genes are involved in the biosynthesis pathway of a specific …

[HTML][HTML] New applications for phage integrases

PCM Fogg, S Colloms, S Rosser, M Stark… - Journal of molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
Within the last 25 years, bacteriophage integrases have rapidly risen to prominence as
genetic tools for a wide range of applications from basic cloning to genome engineering …