Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper

V Meyer, EY Basenko, JP Benz, GH Braus… - Fungal biology and …, 2020 - Springer
Fungi have the ability to transform organic materials into a rich and diverse set of useful
products and provide distinct opportunities for tackling the urgent challenges before all …

Moulding the mould: understanding and reprogramming filamentous fungal growth and morphogenesis for next generation cell factories

TC Cairns, X Zheng, P Zheng, J Sun, V Meyer - Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2019 - Springer
Filamentous fungi are harnessed as cell factories for the production of a diverse range of
organic acids, proteins, and secondary metabolites. Growth and morphology have critical …

Leveraging machine learning essentiality predictions and chemogenomic interactions to identify antifungal targets

C Fu, X Zhang, AO Veri, KR Iyer, E Lash, A Xue… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fungal pathogens pose a global threat to human health, with Candida albicans among the
leading killers. Systematic analysis of essential genes provides a powerful strategy to …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to establish the link between biosynthetic gene clusters and secondary metabolites

I Kjærbølling, UH Mortensen, T Vesth… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Filamentous fungi produce a vast number of bioactive secondary metabolites (SMs), some of
which have found applications in the pharmaceutical industry including as antibiotics and …

Understanding and controlling filamentous growth of fungal cell factories: novel tools and opportunities for targeted morphology engineering

V Meyer, T Cairns, L Barthel, R King, P Kunz… - Fungal Biology and …, 2021 - Springer
Filamentous fungal cell factories are efficient producers of platform chemicals, proteins,
enzymes and natural products. Stirred-tank bioreactors up to a scale of several hundred m³ …

The regulatory and transcriptional landscape associated with carbon utilization in a filamentous fungus

VW Wu, N Thieme, LB Huberman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Filamentous fungi, such as Neurospora crassa, are very efficient in deconstructing plant
biomass by the secretion of an arsenal of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes, by remodeling …

Metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses reveal comparisons against liquid-state fermentation of primary dark tea, green tea and white tea by Aspergillus cristatus

Y Sun, X Yuan, Z Luo, Y Cao, S Liu, Y Liu - Food Research International, 2023 - Elsevier
Liquid-state fermentation (LSF) of tea leaves is a promising way to obtain tea-based
nutraceutical products rich in various bioactive compounds. In the study, the changes of …

Multi-omics analysis of the metabolism of phenolic compounds in tea leaves by Aspergillus luchuensis during fermentation of pu-erh tea

Y Ma, B Jiang, K Liu, R Li, L Chen, Z Liu… - Food Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aspergillus fungi are extensively used in traditional food fermentation, so their functions,
mechanisms, and safety risks are worth exploring. In this study, a dominant fungal strain (P1) …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide prediction and transcriptome analysis of sugar transporters in four ascomycete fungi

L Xu, J Li, VMG Ramos, C Lyra, A Wiebenga… - Bioresource …, 2024 - Elsevier
The import of plant-derived small sugars by sugar transporters (STs) has received
increasing interest due to its important biological role and great industrial potential. STs are …

Something old, something new: challenges and developments in Aspergillus niger biotechnology

TC Cairns, L Barthel, V Meyer - Essays in Biochemistry, 2021 - portlandpress.com
The filamentous ascomycete fungus Aspergillus niger is a prolific secretor of organic acids,
proteins, enzymes and secondary metabolites. Throughout the last century, biotechnologists …