The microbial food revolution

AE Graham, R Ledesma-Amaro - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Our current food system relies on unsustainable practices, which often fail to provide healthy
diets to a growing population. Therefore, there is an urgent demand for new sustainable …

Plastics and the microbiome: impacts and solutions

G Lear, JM Kingsbury, S Franchini, V Gambarini… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Global plastic production has increased exponentially since manufacturing commenced in
the 1950's, including polymer types infused with diverse additives and fillers. While the …

Programmable probiotics modulate inflammation and gut microbiota for inflammatory bowel disease treatment after effective oral delivery

J Zhou, M Li, Q Chen, X Li, L Chen, Z Dong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play vital roles in intestinal inflammation. Therefore,
eliminating ROS in the inflammatory site by antioxidant enzymes such as catalase and …

Metabolic engineering strategies to enable microbial utilization of C1 feedstocks

W Jiang, D Hernández Villamor, H Peng… - Nature Chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract One-carbon (C1) substrates are preferred feedstocks for the biomanufacturing
industry and have recently gained attention owing to their natural abundance, low …

Biotechnological basis of microbial consortia for the removal of pesticides from the environment

P Bhatt, K Bhatt, A Sharma, W Zhang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The application of microbial strains as axenic cultures has frequently been employed in a
diverse range of sectors. In the natural environment, microbes exist as multispecies and …

[HTML][HTML] Relieving metabolic burden to improve robustness and bioproduction by industrial microorganisms

J Mao, H Zhang, Y Chen, L Wei, J Liu, J Nielsen… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Metabolic burden is defined by the influence of genetic manipulation and environmental
perturbations on the distribution of cellular resources. The rewiring of microbial metabolism …

From microbiome to traits: designing synthetic microbial communities for improved crop resiliency

RSC De Souza, JSL Armanhi, P Arruda - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plants teem with microorganisms, whose tremendous diversity and role in plant–microbe
interactions are being increasingly explored. Microbial communities create a functional bond …

Design of stable and self-regulated microbial consortia for chemical synthesis

X Li, Z Zhou, W Li, Y Yan, X Shen, J Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial coculture engineering has emerged as a promising strategy for biomanufacturing.
Stability and self-regulation pose a significant challenge for the generation of intrinsically …

The role of synthetic microbial communities (SynCom) in sustainable agriculture

A Shayanthan, PAC Ordoñez, IJ Oresnik - Frontiers in Agronomy, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Modern agriculture faces several challenges due to climate change, limited resources, and
land degradation. Plant-associated soil microbes harbor beneficial plant growth-promoting …

Compartmentalized microbes and co-cultures in hydrogels for on-demand bioproduction and preservation

TG Johnston, SF Yuan, JM Wagner, X Yi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Most mono-and co-culture bioprocess applications rely on large-scale suspension
fermentation technologies that are not easily portable, reusable, or suitable for on-demand …