Exploring native genetic elements as plug-in tools for synthetic biology in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Terpenoids constitute a large family of natural products, attracting commercial interest for a variety of uses as flavours, fragrances, drugs and alternative fuels. Saccharomyces cerevisiae offers a versatile cell factory, as the precursors of terpenoid biosynthesis are naturally synthesized by the sterol bi...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Ignea C,Cvetkovic I,Loupassaki S,Kefalas P,Johnson CB,Kampranis SC,Makris AM

更新日期：2011-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Indole pyruvic acid (IPA) is a versatile platform intermediate and building block for a number of high-value products in the pharmaceutical and food industries. It also has a wide range of applications, such as drugs for the nervous system, cosmetics, and luminophores. Chemical synthesis of IPA is a complica...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhu Y,Hua Y,Zhang B,Sun L,Li W,Kong X,Hong J

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The proteome reflects the available cellular machinery to deal with nutrients and environmental challenges. The most common E. coli strain BL21 growing in different, commonly employed media was evaluated using a detailed quantitative proteome analysis. RESULTS:The presence of preformed biomass precursor mol...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Li Z,Nimtz M,Rinas U

更新日期：2014-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aspergillus terreus is a natural producer of itaconic acid and is currently used to produce itaconic acid on an industrial scale. The metabolic process for itaconic acid biosynthesis is very similar to the production of citric acid in Aspergillus niger. However, a key enzyme in A. niger, cis-aconitate decarb...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： van der Straat L,Vernooij M,Lammers M,van den Berg W,Schonewille T,Cordewener J,van der Meer I,Koops A,de Graaff LH

更新日期：2014-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variations in codon usage between species are one of the major causes affecting recombinant protein expression levels, with a significant impact on the economy of industrial enzyme production processes. The use of codon-optimized genes may overcome this problem. However, designing a gene for optimal expressi...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Menzella HG

更新日期：2011-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:L-arginine (ARG) is an important amino acid for both medicinal and industrial applications. For almost six decades, the research has been going on for its improved industrial level production using different microorganisms. While the initial approaches involved random mutagenesis for increased tolerance to ARG and con...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Shin JH,Lee SY

更新日期：2014-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Green microalgae represent a renewable natural source of vitamin E. Its most bioactive form is the naturally occurring RRR-α-tocopherol which is biosynthesized in photosynthetic organisms as a single stereoisomer. It is noteworthy that the natural and synthetic α-tocopherols are different biomolecular entiti...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Sivakumar G,Jeong K,Lay JO Jr

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methane-utilizing bacteria (methanotrophs) are capable of growth on methane and are attractive systems for bio-catalysis. However, the application of natural methanotrophic strains to large-scale production of value-added chemicals/biofuels requires a number of physiological and genetic alterations. An accur...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： de la Torre A,Metivier A,Chu F,Laurens LM,Beck DA,Pienkos PT,Lidstrom ME,Kalyuzhnaya MG

更新日期：2015-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bifidobacterium spp. are representative probiotics that play an important role in the health of their hosts. Among various Bifidobacterium spp., B. bifidum BGN4 exhibits relatively high cell adhesion to colonic cells and has been reported to have various in vivo and in vitro bio functionalities (e.g., anti-a...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Hong N,Ku S,Yuk K,Johnston TV,Ji GE,Park MS

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a common and leading cause for liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Current therapies to treat HCV infection are shown to be partially effective and poorly tolerated. Therefore, ample efforts are underway to rationally design therapies targeting the HCV non-structural prot...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Anwar MI,Iqbal M,Yousef MS,Rahman M

更新日期：2013-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput methods are widely-used for strain screening effectively resulting in binary information regarding high or low productivity. Nevertheless achieving quantitative and scalable parameters for fast bioprocess development is much more challenging, especially for heterologous protein production. He...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Rohe P,Venkanna D,Kleine B,Freudl R,Oldiges M

更新日期：2012-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Corynebacterium glutamicum was used as a metabolic engineering chassis for production of crude violacein (mixture of violacein and deoxyviolacein) due to Corynebacterium's GRAS status and advantages in tryptophan fermentation. The violacein is a commercially potential compound with various applications deriv...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Sun H,Zhao D,Xiong B,Zhang C,Bi C

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactobacillus ruminis is a poorly characterized member of the Lactobacillus salivarius clade that is part of the intestinal microbiota of pigs, humans and other mammals. Its variable abundance in human and animals may be linked to historical changes over time and geographical differences in dietary intake of...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： O'Donnell MM,Forde BM,Neville B,Ross PR,O'Toole PW

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microalgae has been concerned as a potential source of biodiesel in the recent years. However, it is costly to harvest microalgae as it is commonly cultured in water and the cells are too small to harvest. In order to reduce the cost of cultivation and harvesting, it is important to improve the biomass produ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Chen X,Liu T,Wang Q

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis has been widely used as a cell factory for the production of proteins due to its generally regarded as safe (GRAS) nature and secretion capability. Of the known secretory pathways in B. subtilis, the majority of proteins are exported from the cytoplasm by Sec pat...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Chen J,Zhao L,Fu G,Zhou W,Sun Y,Zheng P,Sun J,Zhang D

更新日期：2016-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of recombinant protein expression seems unpredictable and even good yields of soluble proteins do not guarantee the correct folding. The search for soluble constructs can be performed by exploiting libraries and speeded up by automation, but these approaches are money and time consuming and the tags used f...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： de Marco A

更新日期：2004-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins can be secreted from a host organism with the aid of N-terminal secretion signals. The budding yeast Pichia pastoris (Komagataella sp.) is widely employed to secrete proteins of academic and industrial interest. For this yeast, the most commonly used secretion signal is the N-terminal portion of pre...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Barrero JJ,Casler JC,Valero F,Ferrer P,Glick BS

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs) containing various chain length monomers from C6 to C14 have more applications besides sustainable and environmental-friendly biomaterials owing to their superior physical and mechanical properties. We engineered a reversed fatty acid β-oxidation pathway i...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhuang Q,Qi Q

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptomycetes produce a plethora of natural products including antibiotics and anticancer drugs, as well as many industrial enzymes. Their mycelial life style is a major bottleneck for industrial exploitation and over decades strain improvement programs have selected production strains with better growth pr...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： van Dissel D,Claessen D,Roth M,van Wezel GP

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like natural viruses, manmade protein cages for drug delivery are to be ideally formed by repetitive subunits with self-assembling properties, mimicking viral functions and molecular organization. Naturally formed nanostructures (such as viruses, flagella or simpler protein oligomers) can be engineered to acquire spec...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Vázquez E,Villaverde A

更新日期：2010-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histamine is a key mediator of the anti-inflammatory activity conferred by the probiotic organism Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC PTA 6475 in animal models of colitis and colorectal cancer. In L. reuteri, histamine synthesis and secretion requires L-histidine decarboxylase and a L-histidine/histamine exchanger. C...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Hall AE,Engevik MA,Oezguen N,Haag A,Versalovic J

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The industrially relevant filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger is widely used in industry for its secretion capabilities of enzymes and organic acids. Biotechnologically produced organic acids promise to be an attractive alternative for the chemical industry to replace petrochemicals. Itaconic acid (IA) has ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Hossain AH,Li A,Brickwedde A,Wilms L,Caspers M,Overkamp K,Punt PJ

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biocontrol strain Pseudomonas chlororaphis GP72 isolated from the green pepper rhizosphere synthesizes three antifungal phenazine compounds, 2-Hydroxyphenazine (2-OH-PHZ), 2-hydroxy-phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (2-OH-PCA) and phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA). PCA has been a commercialized antifungal pest...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Liu K,Hu H,Wang W,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is a common host for the production of recombinant proteins. However, hypermannosylation hinders the use of recombinant proteins from yeast in most biopharmaceutical applications. Glyco-engineered yeast strains produce more homogeneously glycosylated proteins, but can...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Pekarsky A,Veiter L,Rajamanickam V,Herwig C,Grünwald-Gruber C,Altmann F,Spadiut O

更新日期：2018-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the progressive miniaturization of bioreactors for screening purposes, shake flasks are still widespread in biotechnological laboratories and industry as cultivation vessels. Shake flasks are often applied as the first or second step in applications such as strain screening or media optimization. Thu...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Flitsch D,Ladner T,Lukacs M,Büchs J

更新日期：2016-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fumaric acid is a commercially important component of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals and industrial materials, yet the current methods of production are unsustainable and ecologically destructive. RESULTS:In this study, the fumarate biosynthetic pathway involving reductive reactions of the tricarboxylic acid c...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Xu G,Liu L,Chen J

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phasin (PhaP), a kind of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) granule-associated proteins, has a role in controlling the properties of PHA granules surface, and is thought to have influence on PHA biosynthesis in PHA-producing bacteria. This study focused on the phaP1(Re) locus in Ralstonia eutropha as a site of chrom...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Kawashima Y,Orita I,Nakamura S,Fukui T

更新日期：2015-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To reduce the production cost of bioethanol obtained from fermentation of the sugars provided by degradation of lignocellulosic biomass (i.e., second generation bioethanol), it is necessary to screen for new enzymes endowed with more efficient biomass degrading properties. This demands the set-up of high-thr...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Navarro D,Couturier M,da Silva GG,Berrin JG,Rouau X,Asther M,Bignon C

更新日期：2010-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxygen-evolving photoautotrophic organisms, like cyanobacteria, protect their photosynthetic machinery by a number of regulatory mechanisms, including alternative electron transfer pathways. Despite the importance in modulating the electron flux distribution between the photosystems, alternative electron tra...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Thiel K,Patrikainen P,Nagy C,Fitzpatrick D,Pope N,Aro EM,Kallio P

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:L-tryptophan is an aromatic amino acid widely used in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. In Escherichia coli, L-tryptophan is synthesized from phosphoenolpyruvate and erythrose 4-phosphate by enzymes in the shikimate pathway and L-tryptophan branch pathway, while L-serine and phosphoribosylpyr...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Gu P,Yang F,Kang J,Wang Q,Qi Q

更新日期：2012-03-02 00:00:00