The expanded CRISPR toolbox for constructing microbial cell factories

Y Teng, T Jiang, Y Yan - Trends in Biotechnology, 2024 - cell.com
Microbial cell factories (MCFs) convert low-cost carbon sources into valuable compounds.
The CRISPR/Cas9 system has revolutionized MCF construction as a remarkable genome …

Enabling pathway design by multiplex experimentation and machine learning

AG Boob, J Chen, H Zhao - Metabolic Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The remarkable metabolic diversity observed in nature has provided a foundation for
sustainable production of a wide array of valuable molecules. However, transferring the …

CRISPR–dCas12a-mediated genetic circuit cascades for multiplexed pathway optimization

Y Wu, Y Li, K Jin, L Zhang, J Li, Y Liu, G Du… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
The production efficiency of microbial cell factories is sometimes limited by the lack of
effective methods to regulate multiple targets in a coordinated manner. Here taking the …

A Multiplex MoClo Toolkit for Extensive and Flexible Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

WM Shaw, AS Khalil, T Ellis - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Synthetic biology toolkits are one of the core foundations on which the field has been built,
facilitating and accelerating efforts to reprogram cells and organisms for diverse …

Synthetic developmental biology: molecular tools to re-design plant shoots and roots

EG Kocaoglan, D Radhakrishnan… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plant morphology and anatomy strongly influence agricultural yield. Crop domestication has
strived for desirable growth and developmental traits, such as larger and more fruits and …

Endogenous CRISPR-Cas mediated in situ genome editing: State-of-the-art and the road ahead for engineering prokaryotes

Z Liu, J Liu, Z Yang, L Zhu, Z Zhu, H Huang… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
The CRISPR-Cas systems have shown tremendous promise as heterologous tools for
genome editing in various prokaryotes. However, the perturbation of DNA homeostasis and …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology tools for engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum

GY Kim, J Kim, G Park, HJ Kim, J Yang… - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Corynebacterium glutamicum is a promising organism for the industrial production of amino
acids, fuels, and various value-added chemicals. From the whole genome sequence …

Design of microbial catalysts for two-stage processes

K Shabestary, S Klamt, H Link, R Mahadevan… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial catalysts must partition incoming substrate between the synthesis of biomass and
the synthesis of a desired product. Although biomass synthesis generates more catalyst and …

Systems-Level Modeling for CRISPR-Based Metabolic Engineering

RAL Cardiff, JM Carothers, JG Zalatan… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The CRISPR-Cas system has enabled the development of sophisticated, multigene
metabolic engineering programs through the use of guide RNA-directed activation or …

[HTML][HTML] Improving recombinant protein production in CHO cells using the CRISPR-Cas system

AK Kalkan, F Palaz, S Sofija, N Elmousa… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are among the most widely used mammalian cell lines
in the biopharmaceutical industry. Therefore, it is not surprising that significant efforts have …