Nature's recyclers: anaerobic microbial communities drive crude biomass deconstruction [0.03%]
Nature的回收者：厌氧微生物群落驱动粗生物质降解
Stephen P Lillington,Patrick A Leggieri,Kellie A Heom et al.
Stephen P Lillington et al.
Microbial communities within anaerobic ecosystems have evolved to degrade and recycle carbon throughout the earth. A number of strains have been isolated from anaerobic microbial communities, which are rich in carbohydrate active enzymes (C...
Andreas Schiermeyer
Andreas Schiermeyer
The production of biopharmaceuticals in plant-based systems had faced several challenges that hampered broader adoption of this technology. In recent years, various plant production hosts have been improved by genetic engineering approaches...
John I Hendry,Anindita Bandyopadhyay,Shyam Srinivasan et al.
John I Hendry et al.
Cyanobacteria are oxygenic photoautotrophs that serve as potential platforms for the production of biochemicals from cheap and renewable raw materials - sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Systems level analysis of the metabolic network of...
Anamika Chatterjee,Drew M DeLorenzo,Rhiannon Carr et al.
Anamika Chatterjee et al.
The production of fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks is necessary for a fossil fuel independent economy. Lignin and other industrial wastes represent sustainable, non-food feedstocks that can be tapped for microbe-based bioproduc...
Gi Bae Kim,Won Jun Kim,Hyun Uk Kim et al.
Gi Bae Kim et al.
Systems metabolic engineering allows efficient development of high performing microbial strains for the sustainable production of chemicals and materials. In recent years, increasing availability of bio big data, for example, omics data, ha...
Trade-offs between gene expression, growth and phenotypic diversity in microbial populations [0.03%]
微生物种群中基因表达、生长和表型多样性的权衡关系
Juhyun Kim,Alexander Darlington,Manuel Salvador et al.
Juhyun Kim et al.
Bacterial cells have a limited number of resources that can be allocated for gene expression. The intracellular competition for these resources has an impact on the cell physiology. Bacteria have evolved mechanisms to optimize resource allo...
Angelina Schindele,Annika Dorn,Holger Puchta
Angelina Schindele
CRISPR/Cas is in the process of inducing the biggest transformation of plant breeding since the green revolution. Whereas initial efforts focused mainly on changing single traits by error prone non-homologous end joining, the last two years...
Janina Metje-Sprink,Thorben Sprink,Frank Hartung
Janina Metje-Sprink
The application of site directed nucleases (SDN) for Genome Editing (GE) in plant breeding and research increases exponentially in the last few years. The main research so far was on 'proof of concept' studies or improvement of the precisio...
Biosynthesis of fatty acid-derived hydrocarbons: perspectives on enzymology and enzyme engineering [0.03%]
脂肪酸衍生的烷烃生物合成：酶学和酶工程的新视角
Kun Liu,Shengying Li
Kun Liu
Enormous fuel consumption and growing environmental concerns have been spurring development of renewable biofuels. Among various biofuels, fatty acid-derived biohydrocarbons are ideal alternatives to non-renewable fossil fuels due to their ...
High-throughput screening for improved microbial cell factories, perspective and promise [0.03%]
高通量筛选改善微生物细胞工厂的现状与前景
Michael D Leavell,Amoolya H Singh,Benjamin B Kaufmann-Malaga
Michael D Leavell
High-throughput screening is a critical part of any industrial strain engineering effort, helping ensure the lowest cost product is produced in the shortest amount of time. Small-scale testing that correlates to manufacturing scale allows r...