Lignocellulosic biomass as renewable feedstock for biodegradable and recyclable plastics production: A sustainable approach

T Raj, K Chandrasekhar, AN Kumar, SH Kim - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid increment in fossil-derived single-use plastic disposal has led to human-made plastic
mountains and leading to ecological imbalance. Therefore, the development of alternative …

Sustainable production and degradation of plastics using microbes

SY Choi, Y Lee, HE Yu, IJ Cho, M Kang, SY Lee - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Plastics are indispensable in everyday life and industry, but the environmental impact of
plastic waste on ecosystems and human health is a huge concern. Microbial biotechnology …

Microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates and nonnatural polyesters

SY Choi, IJ Cho, Y Lee, YJ Kim, KJ Kim… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms produce diverse polymers for various purposes such as storing genetic
information, energy, and reducing power, and serving as structural materials and scaffolds …

Current state and applications of microbial genome-scale metabolic models

WJ Kim, HU Kim, SY Lee - Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) are valuable in describing an organism's entire
metabolism using genomic information and have made huge impact on systems biology and …

Redox cofactor engineering in industrial microorganisms: strategies, recent applications and future directions

J Liu, H Li, G Zhao, Q Caiyin… - Journal of Industrial …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
NAD and NADP, a pivotal class of cofactors, which function as essential electron donors or
acceptors in all biological organisms, drive considerable catabolic and anabolic reactions …

Two-stage (photoautotrophy and heterotrophy) cultivation enables efficient production of bioplastic poly-3-hydroxybutyrate in auto-sedimenting cyanobacterium

T Monshupanee, P Nimdach, A Incharoensakdi - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Sustainable production of bioplastics by heterotrophic microbes has been restricted by the
limited resources of organic substrates and the energy required for biomass harvest. Here …

Advances in synthetic biology and biosafety governance

J Li, H Zhao, L Zheng, W An - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tremendous advances in the field of synthetic biology have been witnessed in multiple
areas including life sciences, industrial development, and environmental bio-remediation …

Artificial carbon assimilation: From unnatural reactions and pathways to synthetic autotrophic systems

X Yang, Y Zhang, G Zhao - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Synthetic biology is being increasingly used to establish novel carbon assimilation pathways
and artificial autotrophic strains that can be used in low-carbon biomanufacturing. Currently …

ECMpy, a simplified workflow for constructing enzymatic constrained metabolic network model

Z Mao, X Zhao, X Yang, P Zhang, J Du, Q Yuan, H Ma - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) have been widely used for the phenotypic
prediction of microorganisms. However, the lack of other constraints in the stoichiometric …

Coproduction of Bioelectricity and Acetoin by Unbalanced Fermentation of Glycerol in Shewanella oneidensis Based on a Genome-Scale Metabolic Network

S Kong, J Zhao, J Luo, Q Yuan, T Chen… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Unbalanced fermentation is a promising innovative strategy for biotechnological production
processes. Guided by the genome-scale metabolic network i LJ1162, the central carbon …