Shikimate and phenylalanine biosynthesis in the green lineage

T Tohge, M Watanabe, R Hoefgen… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The shikimate pathway provides carbon skeletons for the aromatic amino acids l-tryptophan,
l-phenylalanine, and l-tyrosine. It is a high flux bearing pathway and it has been estimated …

Engineering cyanobacteria to generate high-value products

DC Ducat, JC Way, PA Silver - Trends in biotechnology, 2011 - cell.com
Although many microorganisms have been used for the bioindustrial generation of valuable
metabolites, the productive potential of cyanobacterial species has remained largely …

Modular (de) construction of complex bacterial phenotypes by CRISPR/nCas9-assisted, multiplex cytidine base-editing

DC Volke, RA Martino, E Kozaeva, AM Smania… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR/Cas technologies constitute a powerful tool for genome engineering, yet their use
in non-traditional bacteria depends on host factors or exogenous recombinases, which limits …

The entry reaction of the plant shikimate pathway is subjected to highly complex metabolite-mediated regulation

R Yokoyama, MVV de Oliveira, B Kleven… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The plant shikimate pathway directs bulk carbon flow toward biosynthesis of aromatic amino
acids (AAAs, ie tyrosine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan) and numerous aromatic …

Engineering Escherichia coli to overproduce aromatic amino acids and derived compounds

A Rodriguez, JA Martnez, N Flores, A Escalante… - Microbial cell …, 2014 - Springer
The production of aromatic amino acids using fermentation processes with recombinant
microorganisms can be an advantageous approach to reach their global demands. In …

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli: a sustainable industrial platform for bio-based chemical production

X Chen, L Zhou, K Tian, A Kumar, S Singh… - Biotechnology …, 2013 - Elsevier
In order to decrease carbon emissions and negative environmental impacts of various
pollutants, more bulk and/or fine chemicals are produced by bioprocesses, replacing the …

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 …

Styrene biosynthesis from glucose by engineered E. coli

R McKenna, DR Nielsen - Metabolic engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
Styrene is a large volume, commodity petrochemical with diverse commercial applications,
including as a monomer building-block for the synthesis of many useful polymers. Here we …

An optimization framework for identifying reaction activation/inhibition or elimination candidates for overproduction in microbial systems

P Pharkya, CD Maranas - Metabolic engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
We introduce a computational framework termed OptReg that determines the optimal
reaction activations/inhibitions and eliminations for targeted biochemical production. A …

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for (2S)-pinocembrin production from glucose by a modular metabolic strategy

J Wu, G Du, J Zhou, J Chen - Metabolic engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Flavonoids are valuable natural products widely used in human health and nutrition. Recent
advances in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering have yielded improved strain titers …