[HTML][HTML] Microbial cell factories for the sustainable manufacturing of B vitamins

CG Acevedo-Rocha, LS Gronenberg, M Mack… - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Industrially produced B vitamins are widely used in feed, food, cosmetics and
pharma.•Most B vitamins are produced by chemical synthesis in a non-sustainable …

Engineering strategies to boost crop productivity by cutting respiratory carbon loss

JS Amthor, A Bar-Even, AD Hanson, AH Millar… - The Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Roughly half the carbon that crop plants fix by photosynthesis is subsequently lost by
respiration. Nonessential respiratory activity leading to unnecessary CO2 release is unlikely …

Assimilatory sulfate reduction in the marine methanogen Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus

M Jespersen, T Wagner - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus is the only known methanogen that grows on
sulfate as its sole sulfur source, uniquely uniting methanogenesis and sulfate reduction …

Synthesis of high-titer alka(e)nes in Yarrowia lipolytica is enabled by a discovered mechanism

J Li, Y Ma, N Liu, BE Eser, Z Guo, PR Jensen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Alka (e) nes are ideal fuel components for aviation, long-distance transport, and ship**.
They are typically derived from fossil fuels and accounting for 24% of difficult-to-eliminate …

On the evolution of coenzyme biosynthesis

A Kirschning - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2022 The report provides a broad approach to deciphering the evolution of
coenzyme biosynthetic pathways. Here, these various pathways are analyzed with respect …

Using continuous directed evolution to improve enzymes for plant applications

JD García-García, K Van Gelder, J Joshi… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Continuous directed evolution of enzymes and other proteins in microbial hosts is capable of
outperforming classical directed evolution by executing hypermutation and selection …

[HTML][HTML] Panguiarchaeum symbiosum, a potential hyperthermophilic symbiont in the TACK superphylum

YN Qu, YZ Rao, YL Qi, YX Li, A Li, M Palmer… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The biology of Korarchaeia remains elusive due to the lack of genome representatives.
Here, we reconstruct 10 closely related metagenome-assembled genomes from hot spring …

Why cutting respiratory CO2 loss from crops is possible, practicable, and prudential

J Joshi, JS Amthor, DR McCarty, CD Messina… - Modern …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plants release back to the atmosphere about half of the CO2 they capture by photosynthesis.
Decreasing the rate of crop respiration could therefore potentially increase yields, store …

Combined transcriptome and metabolome analysis of Nerium indicum L. elaborates the key pathways that are activated in response to witches' broom disease

S Wang, S Wang, M Li, Y Su, Z Sun, H Ma - BMC Plant Biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Nerium indicum Mill. is an ornamental plant that is found in parks,
riversides, lakesides, and scenic areas in China and other parts of the world. Our recent …

Directed evolution of aerotolerance in sulfide-dependent thiazole synthases

KV Gelder, ER Oliveira-Filho… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sulfide-dependent THI4 thiazole synthases could potentially be used to replace plant
cysteine-dependent suicide THI4s, whose high protein turnover rates make thiamin …