Construction of Escherichia coli cell factories for crocin biosynthesis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mannosylglycerate (MG) is one of the most widespread compatible solutes among marine microorganisms adapted to hot environments. This ionic solute holds excellent ability to protect proteins against thermal denaturation, hence a large number of biotechnological and clinical applications have been put forward...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Faria C,Borges N,Rocha I,Santos H

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:L-arabinose is an important intermediate for anti-virus drug synthesis and has also been used in food additives for diets-controlling in recent years. Commercial production of L-arabinose is a complex progress consisting of acid hydrolysis of gum arabic, followed by multiple procedures of purification, thus ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Cheng H,Wang H,Lv J,Jiang M,Lin S,Deng Z

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chitinases are ubiquitous enzymes that have gained a recent biotechnological attention due to their ability to transform biological waste from chitin into valued chito-oligomers with wide agricultural, industrial or medical applications. The biological activity of these molecules is related to their size and...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Kidibule PE,Santos-Moriano P,Jiménez-Ortega E,Ramírez-Escudero M,Limón MC,Remacha M,Plou FJ,Sanz-Aparicio J,Fernández-Lobato M

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in marine-derived actinomycete strains is a feasible strategy to discover bioactive natural products. Actinoalloteichus sp. AHMU CJ021, isolated from the seashore, was shown to contain an intact but silent caerulomycin A (CRM A) BGC-cam in its genome. Th...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Xie Y,Chen J,Wang B,Chen T,Chen J,Zhang Y,Liu X,Chen Q

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactococcus lactis, a lactic acid bacterium traditionally used to ferment milk and manufacture cheeses, is also, in the biotechnology field, an interesting host to produce proteins of medical interest, as it is "Generally Recognized As Safe". Furthermore, as L. lactis naturally secretes only one major endoge...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Samazan F,Rokbi B,Seguin D,Telles F,Gautier V,Richarme G,Chevret D,Varela PF,Velours C,Poquet I

更新日期：2015-07-16 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: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:Glucose is the main carbon source of E. coli and a typical substrate in production processes. The main glucose uptake system is the glucose specific phosphotransferase system (Glc-PTS). The PTS couples glucose uptake with its phosphorylation. This is achieved by the concomitant conversion of phosphoenolpyruv...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Kyselova L,Kreitmayer D,Kremling A,Bettenbrock K

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A stereoisomer of inositol, scyllo-inositol, is known as a promising therapeutic agent for Alzheimer's disease, since it prevents the accumulation of beta-amyloid deposits, a hallmark of the disease. However, this compound is relatively rare in nature, whereas another stereoisomer of inositol, myo-inositol, ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yamaoka M,Osawa S,Morinaga T,Takenaka S,Yoshida K

更新日期：2011-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmid expression is a popular method in studies of MVA pathway for isoprenoid production in Escherichia coli. However, heterologous gene expression with plasmid is often not stable and might burden growth of host cells, decreases cell mass and product yield. In this study, MVA pathway was divided into thre...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Ye L,Zhang C,Bi C,Li Q,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first genome sequences of the important yeast protein production host Pichia pastoris have been released into the public domain this spring. In order to provide the scientific community easy and versatile access to the sequence, two web-sites have been installed as a resource for genomic sequence, gene and protein...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Mattanovich D,Callewaert N,Rouzé P,Lin YC,Graf A,Redl A,Tiels P,Gasser B,De Schutter K

更新日期：2009-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A key advantage of recombinant antibody technology is the ability to optimize and tailor reagents. Single domain antibodies (sdAbs), the recombinantly produced variable domains derived from camelid and shark heavy chain antibodies, provide advantages of stability and solubility and can be further engineered ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Liu JL,Shriver-Lake LC,Anderson GP,Zabetakis D,Goldman ER

更新日期：2017-12-12 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：:Phytases are widely utilized in feed industry to increase the utilization of phosphorus, minerals, and amino acids for improvement of animal and human nutrition. At present, all known β-propeller phytases (BPP) have been generated from bacteria, particularly Bacillus. In this work we report for the first time a new fu...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Hou X,Shen Z,Li N,Kong X,Sheng K,Wang J,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-04-06 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：:Recent evidence has demonstrated that cell-to-cell signaling is a fundamental activity carried out by numerous microorganisms. A number of specialized processes are reported to be regulated by density-dependent signaling molecules including antibiotic production, bioluminescence, biofilm formation, genetic competence,...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： DeLisa MP,Bentley WE

更新日期：2002-12-20 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:Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) is an important cofactor ensuring intracellular redox balance, anabolism and cell growth in all living systems. Our recent multi-omics analyses of glucoamylase (GlaA) biosynthesis in the filamentous fungal cell factory Aspergillus niger indicated that low a...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Sui YF,Schütze T,Ouyang LM,Lu H,Liu P,Xiao X,Qi J,Zhuang YP,Meyer V

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：: The aim of this work is to present a critical review on slurry bioreactors (SB) and their application to bioremediation of soils and sediments polluted with recalcitrant and toxic compounds. The scope of the review encompasses the following subjects: (i) process fundamentals of SB and analysis of advantages and disad...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Robles-González IV,Fava F,Poggi-Varaldo HM

更新日期：2008-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous strategies have been developed for the display of heterologous proteins in the surface of live bacterial carriers, which can be used as vaccines, immune-modulators, cancer therapy or bioremediation. Bacterial biofilms have emerged as an interesting approach for the expression of proteins of interest...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Vogt CM,Schraner EM,Aguilar C,Eichwald C

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The CRISPR/Cas9 system is a powerful tool for genome editing, in which the sgRNA binds and guides the Cas9 protein for the sequence-specific cleavage. The protocol is employable in different organisms, but is often limited by cell damage due to the endonuclease activity of the introduced Cas9 and the potenti...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yang YJ,Wang Y,Li ZF,Gong Y,Zhang P,Hu WC,Sheng DH,Li YZ

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficiency of biotechnological production processes depends on selecting the best performing microbial strain and the optimal cultivation conditions. Thus, many experiments have to be conducted, which conflicts with the demand to speed up drug development processes. Consequently, there is a great need fo...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Funke M,Buchenauer A,Mokwa W,Kluge S,Hein L,Müller C,Kensy F,Büchs J

更新日期：2010-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extracts and products (roots and/or aerial parts) from Echinacea ssp. represent a profitable market sector for herbal medicines thanks to different functional features. Alkamides and polyacetylenes, phenols like caffeic acid and its derivatives, polysaccharides and glycoproteins are the main bioactive compou...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Rizzello CG,Coda R,Macías DS,Pinto D,Marzani B,Filannino P,Giuliani G,Paradiso VM,Di Cagno R,Gobbetti M

更新日期：2013-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under aerobic conditions, acetic acid is the major byproduct produced by E. coli during the fermentation. And acetic acid is detrimental to cell growth as it destroys transmembrane pH gradients. Hence, how to reduce the production of acetic acid and how to utilize it as a feedstock are of intriguing interest...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yang J,Nie Q

更新日期：2016-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:L-Alanyl-L-glutamine (AQ) is a functional dipeptide with high water solubility, good thermal stability and high bioavailability. It is widely used in clinical treatment, post-operative rehabilitation, sports health care and other fields. AQ is mainly produced via chemical synthesis which is complicated, time...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhu J,Yang W,Wang B,Liu Q,Zhong X,Gao Q,Liu J,Huang J,Lin B,Tao Y

更新日期：2020-06-11 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:Xylanases randomly cleave the internal β-1,4-glycosidic bonds in the xylan backbone and are grouped into different families in the carbohydrate-active enzyme (CAZy) database. Although multiple xylanases are detected in single strains of many filamentous fungi, no study has been reported on the composition, s...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yang Y,Yang J,Wang R,Liu J,Zhang Y,Liu L,Wang F,Yuan H

更新日期：2019-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Co-expression of two distinct guide RNAs (gRNAs) has been used to facilitate the application of CRISPR/Cas9 system in fields such as large genomic deletion. The paired gRNAs are often placed adjacently in the same direction and expressed individually by two identical promoters, constituting direct repeats (D...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Ding T,Huang C,Liang Z,Ma X,Wang N,Huo YX

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput screening methods assume that the output measured is representative of changes in metabolic flux toward the desired product and is not affected by secondary phenotypes. However, metabolic engineering can result in unintended phenotypes that may go unnoticed in initial screening. The red pigme...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Bongers M,Chrysanthopoulos PK,Behrendorff JB,Hodson MP,Vickers CE,Nielsen LK

更新日期：2015-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:E. coli is a robust host for various genetic manipulations and has been used commonly for bioconversion of hexose and pentose sugars into valuable products. One of the products that E. coli make under fermentative condition is ethanol. However, availability of limited reducing equivalence and generation of c...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Munjal N,Mattam AJ,Pramanik D,Srivastava PS,Yazdani SS

更新日期：2012-11-04 00:00:00