Improving microbial cell factory performance by engineering SAM availability

Y Lv, J Chang, W Zhang, H Dong, S Chen… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Methylated natural products are widely spread in nature. S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) is
the secondary abundant cofactor and the primary methyl donor, which confer natural …

Microbial production of mevalonate

CH Wang, J Hou, HK Deng, LJ Wang - Journal of Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mevalonate, an important intermediate product of the mevalonate pathway, has a broad
spectrum of applications. With the rapid growth of metabolic engineering and synthetic …

Application of cofactors in the regulation of microbial metabolism: a state of the art review

Y Sun, T Zhang, B Lu, X Li, L Jiang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cofactors are crucial chemicals that maintain cellular redox balance and drive the cell to do
synthetic and catabolic reactions. They are involved in practically all enzymatic activities that …

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 …

Reprograming the Carbon Metabolism of Yeast for Hyperproducing Mevalonate, a Building Precursor of the Terpenoid Backbone

G Zhang, Y Ma, M Huang, K Jia, T Ma… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Utilization of microbial hosts to produce natural plant products is regarded as a promising
and sustainable approach. However, achieving highly efficient production of terpenoids …

Construction of an orthogonal transport system for Saccharomyces cerevisiae peroxisome to efficiently produce sesquiterpenes

C Zhang, C Chen, X Bian, J Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Ma… - Metabolic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Subcellular compartmentalization is a crucial evolution characteristic of eukaryotic cells,
providing inherent advantages for the construction of artificial biological systems to efficiently …

Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae towards synthesis of linalool using linalool synthase from Magnolia champaca

A Abdulla, N Gupta, S Mutturi - Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Linalool is one of the commercially important fragrance molecule usually extracted from
Lavandula angustifolia (lavender) and Ocimum basilicum (basil) plants. In the present study …

Simultaneous Engineering of the Thermostability and Activity of a Novel Aldehyde Dehydrogenase

K Xu, Q Chen, H Fu, Q Chen, J Gu, X Wang… - ACS Catalysis, 2025 - ACS Publications
Acetaldehyde is a toxic pollutant that can be detoxified by acetaldehyde dehydrogenases
(ADAs) through its conversion to acetyl-CoA. This study developed an integrated approach …

An atypical Acyl‐CoA synthetase enables efficient biosynthesis of extender units for engineering a polyketide carbon scaffold

M Zheng, J Zhang, W Zhang, L Yang, X Yan… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Acyl‐CoAs are key precursors of primary and secondary metabolism. Their efficient
biosynthesis is often impeded by the limited substrate specificity and low in vivo activity of …

Opportunities and Challenges of in vitro Synthetic Biosystem for Terpenoids Production

Y Liyang, G Qiang, L Jifang, Z Bangyuan… - Biotechnology and …, 2022 - Springer
Terpenoids are a large variety of natural products with remarkable diverse biological
functions, and have a wide range of applications in flavors, pharmaceuticals, biofuels …