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ReviewSynthetic and systems biotechnology2016

Gao-Yi Tan, Faying Zhu, Zixin Deng, Tiangang Liu

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Review in Synthetic and systems biotechnology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Metabolic engineering ofSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2025
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  4. Cell-free biosynthesis of limonene using enzyme-enrichedSynthetic biology (Oxford, England) · 2019
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  5. AnSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2018
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gao-Yi TanKey Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Wuhan University), Ministry of Education, And Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China.
Faying ZhuKey Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Wuhan University), Ministry of Education, And Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China.
Zixin DengKey Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Wuhan University), Ministry of Education, And Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China.
Tiangang LiuKey Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Wuhan University), Ministry of Education, And Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China.
Wuhan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the developments in metabolic engineering and the emergence of synthetic biology, many breakthroughs in medicinal, biological and chemical products as well as biofuels have been achieved in recent decades. As an important barrier to traditional metabolic engineering, however, the identification of rate-limiting step(s) for the improvement of specific cellular functions is often difficult. Meanwhile, in the case of synthetic biology, more and more BioBricks could be constructed for targeted purposes, but the optimized assembly or engineering of these components for high-efficiency cell factories is still a challenge. Owing to the lack of steady-state kinetic data for overall flux, balancing many multistep biosynthetic pathways is time-consuming and needs vast resources of labor and materials. A strategy called targeted engineering is proposed in an effort to solve this problem. Briefly, a targeted biosynthetic pathway is to be reconstituted

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Fatty acidIn vitro reconstitutionPolyketideTargeted engineeringTerpene

Identifiers

PMID29062924
PMCPMC5640587
OpenAlexW2322904846

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Registered trials

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