Exploitation of Bacillus subtilis as a robust workhorse for production of heterologous proteins and beyond

W Cui, L Han, F Suo, Z Liu, L Zhou, Z Zhou - World Journal of Microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
Bacillus subtilis, belonging to the type species of Bacillus, is a type of soil-derived, low% G+
C, endospore-forming Gram-positive bacterium. After the discovery of B. subtilis 168 that …

The multifunctionality of expression systems in Bacillus subtilis: Emerging devices for the production of recombinant proteins

CC Souza, JM Guimarães, SS Pereira… - Experimental …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Bacillus subtilis is a successful host for producing recombinant proteins. Its GRAS (generally
recognized as safe) status and its remarkable innate ability to absorb and incorporate …

Pyruvate-responsive genetic circuits for dynamic control of central metabolism

X Xu, X Li, Y Liu, Y Zhu, J Li, G Du, J Chen… - Nature Chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Dynamic regulation is a promising strategy for fine-tuning metabolic fluxes in microbial cell
factories. However, few of these synthetic regulatory systems have been developed for …

CRISPRi allows optimal temporal control of N-acetylglucosamine bioproduction by a dynamic coordination of glucose and xylose metabolism in Bacillus subtilis

Y Wu, T Chen, Y Liu, X Lv, J Li, G Du… - Metabolic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Glucose and xylose are the two most abundant sugars in renewable lignocellulose sources;
however, typically they cannot be simultaneously utilized due to carbon catabolite …

A novel strategy for protein production using non-classical secretion pathway in Bacillus subtilis

J Chen, L Zhao, G Fu, W Zhou, Y Sun, P Zheng… - Microbial cell …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis has been widely used as
a cell factory for the production of proteins due to its generally regarded as safe (GRAS) …

Promoter engineering enables overproduction of foreign proteins from a single copy expression cassette in Bacillus subtilis

C Zhou, B Ye, S Cheng, L Zhao, Y Liu, J Jiang… - Microbial cell …, 2019 - Springer
Background Bacillus subtilis is developed to be an attractive expression host to produce
both secreted and cytoplasmic proteins owing to its prominent biological characteristics …

A fitness trade-off between growth and survival governed by Spo0A-mediated proteome allocation constraints in Bacillus subtilis

M Zhu, Q Wang, H Mu, F Han, Y Wang, X Dai - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Growth and survival are key determinants of bacterial fitness. However, how resource
allocation of bacteria could reconcile these two traits to maximize fitness remains poorly …

Development of a synthetic cumate-inducible gene expression system for Bacillus

SO Seo, C Schmidt-Dannert - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2019 - Springer
A novel inducible gene expression system using p-isopropyl benzoate (cumate) as an
inducer was developed for the industrial production hosts, Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus …

Multiple integration of the gene ganA into the Bacillus subtilis chromosome for enhanced β-galactosidase production using the CRISPR/Cas9 system

H Watzlawick, J Altenbuchner - AMB Express, 2019 - Springer
The ganA gene from Bacillus subtilis encoding a β-galactosidase for degradation of the
galactomannan was integrated in different loci of the B. subtilis chromosome employing the …

Plasmid-encoded phosphatase RapP enhances cell growth in non-domesticated Bacillus subtilis strains

M Zhu, Y Wang, H Mu, F Han, Q Wang, Y Pei… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The trade-off between rapid growth and other important physiological traits (eg, survival and
adaptability) poses a fundamental challenge for microbes to achieve fitness maximization …