Combating bacterial infections with host defense peptides: shifting focus from bacteria to host immunity

N Gao, J Wang, C Fang, P Bai, Y Sun, W Wu… - Drug Resistance …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections necessitates the
exploration of novel paradigms for anti-infective therapy. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also …

Deciphering chemical logic of fungal natural product biosynthesis through heterologous expression and genome mining

CY Chiang, M Ohashi, Y Tang - Natural product reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2022 Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene
clusters (BGCs) has become a widely used tool for genome mining of cryptic pathways …

A synthetic biology approach to transform Yarrowia lipolytica into a competitive biotechnological producer of β‐carotene

M Larroude, E Celinska, A Back… - Biotechnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing market demands of β‐carotene as colorant, antioxidant and vitamin
precursor, requires novel biotechnological production platforms. Yarrowia lipolytica, is an …

Optogenetic control of the lac operon for bacterial chemical and protein production

MA Lalwani, SS Ip, C Carrasco-López, C Day… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Control of the lac operon with isopropyl β-d-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) has been used
to regulate gene expression in Escherichia coli for countless applications, including …

[HTML][HTML] Developing fungal heterologous expression platforms to explore and improve the production of natural products from fungal biodiversity

X Meng, Y Fang, M Ding, Y Zhang, K Jia, Z Li… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural products from fungi represent an important source of biologically active metabolites
notably for therapeutic agent development. Genome sequencing revealed that the number …

Design, construction, and functional characterization of a tRNA neochromosome in yeast

D Schindler, RSK Walker, S Jiang, AN Brooks, Y Wang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Here, we report the design, construction, and characterization of a tRNA neochromosome, a
designer chromosome that functions as an additional, de novo counterpart to the native …

Nonribosomal antibacterial peptides that target multidrug-resistant bacteria

Y Liu, S Ding, J Shen, K Zhu - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to 2018, particularly from 2010 to early 2018 The increase in the incidence
of antibiotic resistant infections is threatening to overwhelm healthcare practices worldwide …

From axenic to mixed cultures: technological advances accelerating a paradigm shift in microbiology

C Nai, V Meyer - Trends in microbiology, 2018 - cell.com
Since the onset of microbiology in the late 19th century, scientists have been growing
microorganisms almost exclusively as pure cultures, resulting in a limited and biased view of …

Rapid host strain improvement by in vivo rearrangement of a synthetic yeast chromosome

BA Blount, GOF Gowers, JCH Ho… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Synthetic biology tools, such as modular parts and combinatorial DNA assembly, are
routinely used to optimise the productivity of heterologous metabolic pathways for …

Additive manufacturing of catalytically active living materials

A Saha, TG Johnston, RT Shafranek… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Living materials, which are composites of living cells residing in a polymeric matrix, are
designed to utilize the innate functionalities of the cells to address a broad range of …