High-throughput screening for efficient microbial biotechnology

A Sarnaik, A Liu, D Nielsen, AM Varman - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•High-throughput screening (HTS) facilitates selection of the best performing
strain.•Biosensor-enabled HTS obviates the need for sophisticated analytical …

Synthetic biology approaches to improve biocatalyst identification in metagenomic library screening

ME Guazzaroni, R Silva‐Rocha… - Microbial …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
There is a growing demand for enzymes with improved catalytic performance or tolerance to
process‐specific parameters, and biotechnology plays a crucial role in the development of …

Microbial taxonomy in the era of OMICS: application of DNA sequences, computational tools and techniques

NK Mahato, V Gupta, P Singh, R Kumari… - Antonie Van …, 2017 - Springer
The current prokaryotic taxonomy classifies phenotypically and genotypically diverse
microorganisms using a polyphasic approach. With advances in the next-generation …

Comparative genomic analysis of nine Sphingobium strains: insights into their evolution and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) degradation pathways

H Verma, R Kumar, P Oldach, N Sangwan, JP Khurana… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Sphingobium spp. are efficient degraders of a wide range of chlorinated and
aromatic hydrocarbons. In particular, strains which harbour the lin pathway genes mediating …

Restoring HCHs polluted land as one of the priority activities during the UN-International Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030): A call for global action

V Tripathi, SA Edrisi, R Chaurasia, KK Pandey… - Science of The Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The United Nations General Assembly has recently declared 2021–2030 as the
'International Decade on Ecosystem Restoration'for facilitating the restoration of degraded …

Haloalkane dehalogenases from marine organisms

A Kunka, J Damborsky, Z Prokop - Methods in enzymology, 2018 - Elsevier
Haloalkane dehalogenases degrade halogenated compounds to corresponding alcohols by
a hydrolytic mechanism. These enzymes are being intensively investigated as model …

Stereoselective accumulations of hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) are correlated with Sphingomonas spp. in agricultural soils across China

Y Xu, L Niu, J Qiu, Y Zhou, H Lu, W Liu - Environmental Pollution, 2018 - Elsevier
The wide usage of hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) as pesticides has caused soil pollution
and adverse health effects through direct contact or bioaccumulation in the food chain. This …

Functional screening of a soil metagenome for DNA endonucleases by acquired resistance to bacteriophage infection

S Mtimka, P Pillay, K Rashamuse, S Gildenhuys… - Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Springer
Endonucleases play a crucial role as reagents in laboratory research and diagnostics. Here,
metagenomics was used to functionally screen a fosmid library for endonucleases. A fosmid …

A high-throughput screening assay for the directed evolution-guided discovery of halohydrin dehalogenase mutants for epoxide ring-opening reaction

I Gul, TF Bogale, J Deng, L Wang, J Feng… - Journal of biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Halohydrin dehalogenases (HHDHs) are valuable biocatalysts involved in the synthesis of β-
substituted alcohols via their nucleophile-mediated ring-opening activity. To use directed …

A paper-based whole-cell screening assay for directed evolution-driven enzyme engineering

I Gul, TF Bogale, Y Chen, X Yang, R Fang… - Applied Microbiology …, 2020 - Springer
Directed evolution has become an important method to unleash the latent potential of
enzymes to make them uniquely suited for human purposes. However, the need for a large …