Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for natural product biosynthesis

D Yang, SY Park, YS Park, H Eun, SY Lee - Trends in Biotechnology, 2020 - cell.com
Natural products are widely employed in our daily lives as food additives, pharmaceuticals,
nutraceuticals, and cosmetic ingredients, among others. However, their supply has often …

Microbial production of natural and non-natural flavonoids: pathway engineering, directed evolution and systems/synthetic biology

RP Pandey, P Parajuli, MAG Koffas, JK Sohng - Biotechnology advances, 2016 - Elsevier
In this review, we address recent advances made in pathway engineering, directed
evolution, and systems/synthetic biology approaches employed in the production and …

Modular optimization of multi-gene pathways for fatty acids production in E. coli

P Xu, Q Gu, W Wang, L Wong, AGW Bower… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Microbial fatty acid-derived fuels have emerged as promising alternatives to petroleum-
based transportation fuels. Here we report a modular engineering approach that …

Microbial acetyl-CoA metabolism and metabolic engineering

A Krivoruchko, Y Zhang, V Siewers, Y Chen… - Metabolic …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent concerns over the sustainability of petrochemical-based processes for production of
desired chemicals have fueled research into alternative modes of production. Metabolic …

Fatty acid synthesis in Escherichia coli and its applications towards the production of fatty acid based biofuels

HJ Janßen, A Steinbüchel - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2014 - Springer
The idea of renewable and regenerative resources has inspired research for more than a
hundred years. Ideally, the only spent energy will replenish itself, like plant material …

ATP drives direct photosynthetic production of 1-butanol in cyanobacteria

EI Lan, JC Liao - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
While conservation of ATP is often a desirable trait for microbial production of chemicals, we
demonstrate that additional consumption of ATP may be beneficial to drive product formation …

Optimizing oleaginous yeast cell factories for flavonoids and hydroxylated flavonoids biosynthesis

Y Lv, M Marsafari, M Koffas, J Zhou, P Xu - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Plants possess myriads of secondary metabolites with a broad spectrum of health-promoting
benefits. To date, plant extraction is still the primary route to produce high-value natural …

Engineering plant secondary metabolism in microbial systems

ME Pyne, L Narcross, VJJ Martin - Plant physiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Engineering Plant Secondary Metabolism in Microbial Systems | Plant Physiology | Oxford
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Engineering site-selective incorporation of fluorine into polyketides

S Sirirungruang, O Ad, TM Privalsky, S Ramesh… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Although natural products and synthetic small molecules both serve important medicinal
functions, their structures and chemical properties are relatively distinct. To expand the …

Metabolic engineering for the production of natural products

LB Pickens, Y Tang, YH Chooi - Annual review of chemical and …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Natural products and their derivatives play an important role in modern healthcare as
frontline treatments for many diseases and as inspiration for chemically synthesized …