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ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2011

The role of cellular objectives and selective pressures in metabolic pathway evolution.

Hojung Nam, Tom M Conrad, Nathan E Lewis

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Review in Current opinion in biotechnology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Engineering furfural tolerance in Escherichia coli improves the fermentation of lignocellulosic sugars into renewable chemicals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hojung NamDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Tom M Conrad
Nathan E Lewis

Funding

GENOMICALLY BASED MODELS FOR ANTIBIOTIC DEVELOPMENTR01GM057089 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PALSSON, BERNHARD O · 1998 to 2021
$6.9M
Testable in silico Hypotheses for E.coli GrowthR01GM062791 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PALSSON, BERNHARD O · 2002 to 2009
$4.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM057089NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM062791NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM57089
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evolution results from molecular-level changes in an organism, thereby producing novel phenotypes and, eventually novel species. However, changes in a single gene can lead to significant changes in biomolecular networks through the gain and loss of many molecular interactions. Thus, significant insights into microbial evolution have been gained through the analysis and comparison of reconstructed metabolic networks. However, challenges remain from reconstruction incompleteness and the inability to experiment with evolution on the timescale necessary for new species to arise. Despite these challenges, experimental laboratory evolution of microbes has provided some insights into the cellular objectives underlying evolution, under the constraints of nutrient availability and the use of mechanisms that protect cells from extreme conditions.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularMetabolic Networks and PathwaysBacteriaBiological EvolutionPhenotype

Identifiers

PMID21481583
PMCPMC3173765

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