Diversity, versatility and complexity of bacterial gene regulation mechanisms: opportunities and drawbacks for applications in synthetic biology

I Bervoets, D Charlier - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression occurs in two essential steps: transcription and translation. In bacteria, the
two processes are tightly coupled in time and space, and highly regulated. Tight regulation …

Efficient heterologous expression of cytochrome P450 enzymes in microorganisms for the biosynthesis of natural products

B Hu, X Zhao, E Wang, J Zhou, J Li… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Natural products, a chemically and structurally diverse class of molecules, possess a wide
spectrum of biological activities, have been used therapeutically for millennia, and have …

Whole‐Cell P450 Biocatalysis Using Engineered Escherichia coli with Fine‐Tuned Heme Biosynthesis

B Hu, H Yu, J Zhou, J Li, J Chen, G Du… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
By exploiting versatile P450 enzymes, whole‐cell biocatalysis can be performed to
synthesize valuable compounds in Escherichia coli. However, the insufficient supply of …

Expression of eukaryotic membrane proteins in eukaryotic and prokaryotic hosts

A Kesidis, P Depping, A Lodé, A Vaitsopoulou, RM Bill… - Methods, 2020 - Elsevier
The production of membrane proteins of high purity and in satisfactory yields is crucial for
biomedical research. Due to their involvement in various cellular processes, membrane …

A plasmid toolbox for controlled gene expression across the Proteobacteria

LA Schuster, CR Reisch - Nucleic Acids Research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Controlled gene expression is fundamental for the study of gene function and our ability to
engineer bacteria. However, there is currently no easy-to-use genetics toolbox that enables …

Tailoring the evolution of BL21 (DE3) uncovers a key role for RNA stability in gene expression toxicity

SAH Heyde, MHH Nørholm - Communications Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Gene expression toxicity is an important biological phenomenon and a major bottleneck in
biotechnology. Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) is the most popular choice for recombinant …

Bacteria (E. coli) take up ultrasmall gold nanoparticles (2 nm) as shown by different optical microscopic techniques (CLSM, SIM, STORM)

N Białas, V Sokolova, SB van der Meer… - Nano …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The uptake of fluorescently labeled ultrasmall gold nanoparticles (2 nm) by Gram‐negative
Escherichia coli bacteria occurs within 1–3 hours. This was demonstrated by confocal laser …

Functionality of membrane proteins overexpressed and purified from E. coli is highly dependent upon the strain

K Mathieu, W Javed, S Vallet, C Lesterlin… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Overexpression of correctly folded membrane proteins is a fundamental prerequisite for
functional and structural studies. One of the most commonly used expression systems for the …

Changes in membrane protein structural biology

J Birch, H Cheruvara, N Gamage, PJ Harrison, R Lithgo… - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Membrane proteins are essential to all forms of life. Millions of membrane
proteins are found in the lipid membrane layer that surrounds cells, and in the lipid …

Plasmids for controlled and tunable high-level expression in E. coli

LA Schuster, CR Reisch - Applied and Environmental …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Controlled gene expression is crucial for engineering bacteria for basic and applied
research. Inducible systems enable tight regulation of expression, wherein a small-molecule …