Chasing bacterial chassis for metabolic engineering: a perspective review from classical to non‐traditional microorganisms

P Calero, PI Nikel - Microbial Biotechnology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of novel
bacterial species that hold potential to be used for metabolic engineering. Historically …

The ArcAB two-component system: function in metabolism, redox control, and infection

AN Brown, MT Anderson, MA Bachman… - Microbiology and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ArcAB, also known as the Arc system, is a member of the two-component system family of
bacterial transcriptional regulators and is composed of sensor kinase ArcB and response …

Pseudomonas putida KT2440 strain metabolizes glucose through a cycle formed by enzymes of the Entner-Doudoroff, Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas, and pentose …

PI Nikel, M Chavarría, T Fuhrer, U Sauer… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
The soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440 lacks a functional Embden-Meyerhof-
Parnas (EMP) pathway, and glycolysis is known to proceed almost exclusively through the …

Cofactor engineering for more efficient production of chemicals and biofuels

M Wang, B Chen, Y Fang, T Tan - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
Cofactors are involved in numerous intracellular reactions and critically influence redox
balance and cellular metabolism. Cofactor engineering can support and promote the …

The bacterial response regulator ArcA uses a diverse binding site architecture to regulate carbon oxidation globally

DM Park, MS Akhtar, AZ Ansari, R Landick… - PLoS genetics, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Despite the importance of maintaining redox homeostasis for cellular viability, how cells
control redox balance globally is poorly understood. Here we provide new mechanistic …

Directed strain evolution restructures metabolism for 1-butanol production in minimal media

S Pontrelli, RCB Fricke, SSM Sakurai, SP Putri… - Metabolic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Engineering a microbial strain for production sometimes entails metabolic modifications that
impair essential physiological processes for growth or production. Restoring these functions …

The CreC regulator of Escherichia coli, a new target for metabolic manipulations

MS Godoy, PI Nikel, JG Cabrera Gomez… - Applied and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
The CreBC (c arbon source-re sponsive) two-component regulation system of Escherichia
coli affects a number of functions, including intermediary carbon catabolism. The impacts of …

[HTML][HTML] Escherichia coli redox mutants as microbial cell factories for the synthesis of reduced biochemicals

JA Ruiz, A De Almeida, MS Godoy, MP Mezzina… - Computational and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Bioprocesses conducted under conditions with restricted O 2 supply are increasingly
exploited for the synthesis of reduced biochemicals using different biocatalysts. The model …

Nicotinamide cofactor ratios in engineered strains of Clostridium thermocellum and Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum

D Beri, DG Olson, EK Holwerda… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Clostridium thermocellum and Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum are bacteria under
investigation for production of biofuels from plant biomass. Thermoanaerobacterium …

Conserved metabolic regulator ArcA responds to oxygen availability, iron limitation, and cell envelope perturbations during bacteremia

AN Brown, MT Anderson, SN Smith, MA Bachman… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Gram-negative facultative anaerobes often cause bacteremia, a systemic infection
associated with severe clinical outcomes. ArcAB, a two-component regulatory system that …