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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2018

Rewriting the Metabolic Blueprint: Advances in Pathway Diversification in Microorganisms.

Gazi Sakir Hossain, Saravanan Prabhu Nadarajan, Lei Zhang, Tee-Kheang Ng, Jee Loon Foo, Hua Ling, Won Jae Choi, Matthew Wook Chang

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Engineered microbial consortia for next-generation feedstocks.Biotechnology notes (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Gazi Sakir HossainDepartment of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Saravanan Prabhu NadarajanDepartment of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Lei ZhangDepartment of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Tee-Kheang NgDepartment of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Jee Loon FooDepartment of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Hua LingDepartment of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Won Jae ChoiDepartment of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Matthew Wook ChangDepartment of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Living organisms have evolved over millions of years to fine tune their metabolism to create efficient pathways for producing metabolites necessary for their survival. Advancement in the field of synthetic biology has enabled the exploitation of these metabolic pathways for the production of desired compounds by creating microbial cell factories through metabolic engineering, thus providing sustainable routes to obtain value-added chemicals. Following the past success in metabolic engineering, there is increasing interest in diversifying natural metabolic pathways to construct non-natural biosynthesis routes, thereby creating possibilities for producing novel valuable compounds that are non-natural or without elucidated biosynthesis pathways. Thus, the range of chemicals that can be produced by biological systems can be expanded to meet the demands of industries for compounds such as plastic precursors and new antibiotics, most of which can only be obtained through chemical synthesis currently. Herein, we review and discuss novel strategies that have been developed to rewrite natural metabolic blueprints in a bid to broaden the chemical repertoire achievable in microorganisms. This review aims to provide insights on recent approaches taken to open new avenues for achieving biochemical production that are beyond currently available inventions.

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biochemical productionmetabolic engineeringpathway engineeringprotein engineeringsynthetic biology

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PMID29483901
PMCPMC5816047

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