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ArticleBioengineered bugs

Modular electron transfer circuits for synthetic biology: insulation of an engineered biohydrogen pathway.

Christina M Agapakis, Pamela A Silver

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Article in Bioengineered bugs. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. De novo design of symmetric ferredoxins that shuttle electrons in vivo.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christina M AgapakisDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Pamela A Silver
Center for Systems Biology · USHarvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electron transfer is central to a wide range of essential metabolic pathways, from photosynthesis to fermentation. The evolutionary diversity and conservation of proteins that transfer electrons makes these pathways a valuable platform for engineered metabolic circuits in synthetic biology. Rational engineering of electron transfer pathways containing hydrogenases has the potential to lead to industrial scale production of hydrogen as an alternative source of clean fuel and experimental assays for understanding the complex interactions of multiple electron transfer proteins in vivo. We designed and implemented a synthetic hydrogen metabolism circuit in Escherichia coli that creates an electron transfer pathway both orthogonal to and integrated within existing metabolism. The design of such modular electron transfer circuits allows for facile characterization of in vivo system parameters with applications toward further engineering for alternative energy production.

Indexed as

Electron TransportBioelectric Energy SourcesBiotechnologyEscherichia coliFerredoxinsGenetic EngineeringHydrogenHydrogenaseIron-Sulfur ProteinsSynthetic BiologyFerredoxinsHydrogenHydrogenaseIron-Sulfur Proteinselectron transferferredoxinhydrogeniron-sulfur clustermodularitysynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID21468209
PMCPMC3056092
OpenAlexW1597595455

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