Lachnospiraceae are emerging industrial biocatalysts and biotherapeutics

T Zaplana, S Miele, AC Tolonen - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The Lachnospiraceae is a family of anaerobic bacteria in the class Clostridia with potential
to advance the bio-economy and intestinal therapeutics. Some species of Lachnospiraceae …

Genetic engineering of resident bacteria in the gut microbiome

J Arnold, J Glazier, M Mimee - Journal of Bacteriology, 2023 - journals.asm.org
Techniques by which to genetically manipulate members of the microbiota enable both the
evaluation of host-microbe interactions and an avenue by which to monitor and modulate …

Orthogonal LoxPsym sites allow multiplexed site-specific recombination in prokaryotic and eukaryotic hosts

C Cautereels, J Smets, J De Saeger, L Cool… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Site-specific recombinases such as the Cre-LoxP system are routinely used for genome
engineering in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Importantly, recombinases complement the …

Towards continuous industrial bioprocessing with solventogenic and acetogenic clostridia: challenges, progress and perspectives

CA Vees, CS Neuendorf, S Pflügl - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The sustainable production of solvents from above ground carbon is highly desired. Several
clostridia naturally produce solvents and use a variety of renewable and waste-derived …

Mobile and self‐sustained data storage in an extremophile genomic DNA

F Sun, Y Dong, M Ni, Z **, Y Sun… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DNA has been pursued as a novel biomaterial for digital data storage. While large‐scale
data storage and random access have been achieved in DNA oligonucleotide pools …

Tuning of Gene Expression in Clostridium phytofermentans Using Synthetic Promoters and CRISPRi

W Rostain, T Zaplana, M Boutard, C Baum… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Control of gene expression is fundamental to cell engineering. Here we demonstrate a set of
approaches to tune gene expression in Clostridia using the model Clostridium …

LoxTnSeq: random transposon insertions combined with cre/lox recombination and counterselection to generate large random genome reductions

D Shaw, S Miravet‐Verde… - Microbial …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The removal of unwanted genetic material is a key aspect in many synthetic biology efforts
and often requires preliminary knowledge of which genomic regions are dispensable …

Lox'd in translation: contradictions in the nomenclature surrounding common lox-site mutants and their implications in experiments

D Shaw, L Serrano, M Lluch-Senar - Microbiology, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
The Cre-Lox system is a highly versatile and powerful DNA recombinase mechanism,
mainly used in genetic engineering to insert or remove desired DNA sequences. It is widely …

[PDF][PDF] Functional characterisation and evaluation of Erwinia mallotivora bifunctional chorismate mutase via TargeTron® gene knockout system

N Abu Bakar, NM Juri, MZ Sohaime… - J. Trop. Agric. and Fd …, 2024 - jtafs.mardi.gov.my
Erwinia mallotivora is the causal agent of papaya dieback disease, a devastating diseases
affecting papaya production in Malaysia. Preliminary omics studies had successfully …

LoxTnSeq: Transposon mutagenesis coupled with ultra-sequencing to study large random genome reductions

D Shaw, S Miravet-Verde, C Pinero-Lambea, L Serrano… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Abstract The Cre-Lox system is a highly versatile and powerful DNA recombinase
mechanism, mainly used in genetic engineering to insert or remove desired DNA …