Physiological limitations and opportunities in microbial metabolic engineering

J Montaño López, L Duran, JL Avalos - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic engineering can have a pivotal role in increasing the environmental sustainability
of the transportation and chemical manufacturing sectors. The field has already developed …

Round, round we go–strategies for enzymatic cofactor regeneration

S Mordhorst, JN Andexer - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the beginning of 2020 Enzymes depending on cofactors are essential in
many biosynthetic pathways of natural products. They are often involved in key steps …

Genome-scale metabolic rewiring improves titers rates and yields of the non-native product indigoidine at scale

D Banerjee, T Eng, AK Lau, Y Sasaki, B Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
High titer, rate, yield (TRY), and scalability are challenging metrics to achieve due to trade-
offs between carbon use for growth and production. To achieve these metrics, we take the …

Systematic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Efficient Production of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide From Nicotinamide

Z Huang, N Li, S Yu, W Zhang, T Zhang… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Research studies on NAD+ have proven its crucial role in aging and disease. Nicotinamide
mononucleotide (NMN), as the key intermediate of NAD+, plays a significant role in …

Designing a periplasmic photosynthetic biohybrid system for succinate and electric energy production

G Liang, X Xu, X Chen, J Wu, W Song, W Wei… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of photosynthetic biohybrid systems provides an environmentally friendly
and sustainable approach to produce fuels and chemicals in microbial cell factories …

An orthogonal metabolic framework for one-carbon utilization

A Chou, SH Lee, F Zhu, JM Clomburg, R Gonzalez - Nature Metabolism, 2021 - nature.com
Metabolic engineering often entails concurrent engineering of substrate utilization, central
metabolism and product synthesis pathways, inevitably creating interdependency with …

Computational enzyme redesign: large jumps in function

Y Cui, J Sun, B Wu - Trends in Chemistry, 2022 - cell.com
Rising demands for enzymes in biotechnological applications have fueled efforts to tailor
their properties towards desired functions, such as activity, selectivity, and stability …

Redox signaling-driven modulation of microbial biosynthesis and biocatalysis

N Chen, N Du, R Shen, T He, J Xi, J Tan, G Bian… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microbial communication can drive coordinated functions through sensing, analyzing and
processing signal information, playing critical roles in biomanufacturing and life evolution …

Isobutanol production freed from biological limits using synthetic biochemistry

S Sherkhanov, TP Korman, S Chan, S Faham… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cost competitive conversion of biomass-derived sugars into biofuel will require high yields,
high volumetric productivities and high titers. Suitable production parameters are hard to …

Cell-free gene expression: methods and applications

AC Hunt, BJ Rasor, K Seki, HM Ekas, KF Warfel… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cell-free gene expression (CFE) systems empower synthetic biologists to build biological
molecules and processes outside of living intact cells. The foundational principle is that …