Directed evolution: methodologies and applications

Y Wang, P Xue, M Cao, T Yu, ST Lane… - Chemical reviews, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Directed evolution aims to expedite the natural evolution process of biological molecules
and systems in a test tube through iterative rounds of gene diversifications and library …

Metabolic engineering: methodologies and applications

MJ Volk, VG Tran, SI Tan, S Mishra, Z Fatma… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Metabolic engineering aims to improve the production of economically valuable molecules
through the genetic manipulation of microbial metabolism. While the discipline is a little over …

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for natural product biosynthesis

D Yang, SY Park, YS Park, H Eun, SY Lee - Trends in Biotechnology, 2020‏ - cell.com
Natural products are widely employed in our daily lives as food additives, pharmaceuticals,
nutraceuticals, and cosmetic ingredients, among others. However, their supply has often …

Engineering cellular metabolism

J Nielsen, JD Keasling - Cell, 2016‏ - cell.com
Metabolic engineering is the science of rewiring the metabolism of cells to enhance
production of native metabolites or to endow cells with the ability to produce new products …

[HTML][HTML] Bacteria as an alternate biofactory for carotenoid production: A review of its applications, opportunities and challenges

S Ram, M Mitra, F Shah, SR Tirkey, S Mishra - Journal of Functional Foods, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Carotenoid has gained a reputation amongst researchers for its robust antioxidant
capabilities. This review reasons the inevitability of carotenoid for a larger role than just …

Combinatorial metabolic engineering using an orthogonal tri-functional CRISPR system

J Lian, M HamediRad, S Hu, H Zhao - Nature communications, 2017‏ - nature.com
Designing an optimal microbial cell factory often requires overexpression, knock-down, and
knock-out of multiple gene targets. Unfortunately, such rewiring of cellular metabolism is …

The evolution of polystyrene as a cell culture material

MJ Lerman, J Lembong, S Muramoto… - … Engineering Part B …, 2018‏ - liebertpub.com
Polystyrene (PS) has brought in vitro cell culture from its humble beginnings to the modern
era, propelling dozens of research fields along the way. This review discusses the …

Semi-synthetic artemisinin: a model for the use of synthetic biology in pharmaceutical development

CJ Paddon, JD Keasling - Nature reviews microbiology, 2014‏ - nature.com
Recent developments in synthetic biology, combined with continued progress in systems
biology and metabolic engineering, have enabled the engineering of microorganisms to …

Microbial engineering for the production of advanced biofuels

PP Peralta-Yahya, F Zhang, SB Del Cardayre… - Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
Advanced biofuels produced by microorganisms have similar properties to petroleum-based
fuels, and can'drop in'to the existing transportation infrastructure. However, producing these …

Precise and reliable gene expression via standard transcription and translation initiation elements

VK Mutalik, JC Guimaraes, G Cambray, C Lam… - Nature …, 2013‏ - nature.com
An inability to reliably predict quantitative behaviors for novel combinations of genetic
elements limits the rational engineering of biological systems. We developed an expression …