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 …

Comparison of yeasts as hosts for recombinant protein production

AM Vieira Gomes, T Souza Carmo, L Silva Carvalho… - Microorganisms, 2018 - mdpi.com
Recombinant protein production emerged in the early 1980s with the development of
genetic engineering tools, which represented a compelling alternative to protein extraction …

Functional spectrum and specificity of mitochondrial ferredoxins FDX1 and FDX2

V Schulz, S Basu, SA Freibert, H Webert, L Boss… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Ferredoxins comprise a large family of iron–sulfur (Fe–S) proteins that shuttle electrons in
diverse biological processes. Human mitochondria contain two isoforms of [2Fe-2S] …

Optogenetic regulation of engineered cellular metabolism for microbial chemical production

EM Zhao, Y Zhang, J Mehl, H Park, MA Lalwani… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The optimization of engineered metabolic pathways requires careful control over the levels
and timing of metabolic enzyme expression,,,. Optogenetic tools are ideal for achieving such …

Promiscuous interactions and protein disaggregases determine the material state of stress-inducible RNP granules

S Kroschwald, S Maharana, D Mateju, L Malinovska… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
RNA-protein (RNP) granules have been proposed to assemble by forming solid RNA/protein
aggregates or through phase separation into a liquid RNA/protein phase. Which model …

Activation of the unfolded protein response by lipid bilayer stress

K Halbleib, K Pesek, R Covino, HF Hofbauer… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a conserved homeostatic program that is activated
by misfolded proteins in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Recently, it became …

CRISPR/Cas9: a molecular Swiss army knife for simultaneous introduction of multiple genetic modifications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

R Mans, HM van Rossum, M Wijsman… - FEMS yeast …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A variety of techniques for strain engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have recently
been developed. However, especially when multiple genetic manipulations are required …

Multiplex metabolic pathway engineering using CRISPR/Cas9 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

T Jakočiūnas, I Bonde, M Herrgård, SJ Harrison… - Metabolic …, 2015 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas9 is a simple and efficient tool for targeted and marker-free genome
engineering. Here, we report the development and successful application of a multiplex …

Induction of autophagy by spermidine promotes longevity

T Eisenberg, H Knauer, A Schauer, S Büttner… - Nature cell …, 2009 - nature.com
Ageing results from complex genetically and epigenetically programmed processes that are
elicited in part by noxious or stressful events that cause programmed cell death. Here, we …

A Cas9-based toolkit to program gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

A Reider Apel, L d'Espaux, M Wehrs… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Despite the extensive use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a platform for synthetic biology,
strain engineering remains slow and laborious. Here, we employ CRISPR/Cas9 technology …