Metabolic engineering: methodologies and applications

MJ Volk, VG Tran, SI Tan, S Mishra, Z Fatma… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metabolic engineering aims to improve the production of economically valuable molecules
through the genetic manipulation of microbial metabolism. While the discipline is a little over …

The microbiota-gut-brain axis

JF Cryan, KJ O'Riordan, CSM Cowan… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
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1907 IV. PATHWAYS OF COMMUNICATION 1911 V. MICROBIOTA AND SYNAPTIC... 1929 …

Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of 7,302 human microorganisms for personalized medicine

A Heinken, J Hertel, G Acharya, DA Ravcheev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome influences the efficacy and safety of a wide variety of commonly
prescribed drugs. Designing precision medicine approaches that incorporate microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic modeling of single Th17 cells reveals regulators of autoimmunity

A Wagner, C Wang, J Fessler, D DeTomaso… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Metabolism is a major regulator of immune cell function, but it remains difficult to study the
metabolic status of individual cells. Here, we present Compass, an algorithm to characterize …

Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities

NI van den Berg, D Machado, S Santos… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent studies have brought forward the critical role of emergent properties in shaping
microbial communities and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Emergent properties …

Emerging therapies in cancer metabolism

Y Xiao, TJ Yu, Y Xu, R Ding, YP Wang, YZ Jiang… - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Metabolic reprogramming in cancer is not only a biological hallmark but also reveals
treatment vulnerabilities. Numerous metabolic molecules have shown promise as treatment …

Identification of bioactive metabolites using activity metabolomics

MM Rinschen, J Ivanisevic, M Giera… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
The metabolome, the collection of small-molecule chemical entities involved in metabolism,
has traditionally been studied with the aim of identifying biomarkers in the diagnosis and …

Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

CE Lawson, WR Harcombe, R Hatzenpichler… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite broad scientific interest in harnessing the power of Earth's microbiomes, knowledge
gaps hinder their efficient use for addressing urgent societal and environmental challenges …

Systems biology and multi-omics integration: viewpoints from the metabolomics research community

FR Pinu, DJ Beale, AM Paten, K Kouremenos… - Metabolites, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of multiple omics techniques (ie, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and
metabolomics) is becoming increasingly popular in all facets of life science. Omics …

Reconstructing organisms in silico: genome-scale models and their emerging applications

X Fang, CJ Lloyd, BO Palsson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is considered to be the best-known microorganism given the large number
of published studies detailing its genes, its genome and the biochemical functions of its …