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 …

[HTML][HTML] Renewable methanol and formate as microbial feedstocks

CAR Cotton, NJ Claassens, S Benito-Vaquerizo… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•One-carbon compounds can be made from CO 2 to provide renewable microbial
feedstocks.•Methanol and formate have key advantages over gaseous one-carbon …

Methanol biotransformation toward high-level production of fatty acid derivatives by engineering the industrial yeast Pichia pastoris

P Cai, X Wu, J Deng, L Gao, Y Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Methanol-based biorefinery is a promising strategy to achieve carbon neutrality goals by
linking CO2 capture and solar energy storage. As a typical methylotroph, Pichia pastoris …

Converting Escherichia coli to a synthetic methylotroph growing solely on methanol

FYH Chen, HW Jung, CY Tsuei, JC Liao - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Methanol, being electron rich and derivable from methane or CO 2, is a potentially
renewable one-carbon (C1) feedstock for microorganisms. Although the ribulose …

Generation of an Escherichia coli strain growing on methanol via the ribulose monophosphate cycle

P Keller, MA Reiter, P Kiefer, T Gassler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Methanol is a liquid with high energy storage capacity that holds promise as an alternative
substrate to replace sugars in the biotechnology industry. It can be produced from CO2 or …

Metabolic engineering advances and prospects for amino acid production

VF Wendisch - Metabolic engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Amino acid fermentation is one of the major pillars of industrial biotechnology. The multi-
billion USD amino acid market is rising steadily and is diversifying. Metabolic engineering is …

Awakening a latent carbon fixation cycle in Escherichia coli

A Satanowski, B Dronsella, E Noor, B Vögeli… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Carbon fixation is one of the most important biochemical processes. Most natural carbon
fixation pathways are thought to have emerged from enzymes that originally performed other …

Advanced strategies and tools to facilitate and streamline microbial adaptive laboratory evolution

Y Wu, A Jameel, XH Xing, C Zhang - Trends in biotechnology, 2022 - cell.com
Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) has served as a historic microbial engineering method
that mimics natural selection to obtain desired microbes. The past decade has witnessed …

Metabolic engineering of Pichia pastoris for malic acid production from methanol

F Guo, Z Dai, W Peng, S Zhang, J Zhou… - Biotechnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The application of rational design in reallocating metabolic flux to accumulate desired
chemicals is always restricted by the native regulatory network. In this study, recombinant …

Engineered methanotrophy: a sustainable solution for methane-based industrial biomanufacturing

AD Nguyen, EY Lee - Trends in Biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
Methane is a promising feedstock with high abundance and low cost for the sustainable
production of biochemicals and biofuels. Methanotrophic bacteria are particularly interesting …