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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Toward engineering

Weihua Wu, Fang Liu, Seema Singh

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
9.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Advancing lignocellulosic conversion though biosensor-enabled metabolic engineering.Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC · 2025
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  15. Translating advances in microbial bioproduction to sustainable biotechnology.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022
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  19. Passive membrane transport of lignin-related compounds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  20. Lignin valorization meets synthetic biology.Engineering in life sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Weihua WuBiomass Science & Conversion Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550.
Fang LiuBiomass Science & Conversion Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550.
Seema SinghBiomass Science & Conversion Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550; seesing@sandia.gov.
Sandia National Laboratories California · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efficient lignin valorization could add more than 10-fold the value gained from burning it for energy and is critical for economic viability of future biorefineries. However, lignin-derived aromatics from biomass pretreatment are known to be potent fermentation inhibitors in microbial production of fuels and other value-added chemicals. In addition, isopropyl-β-d-1-thiogalactopyranoside and other inducers are routinely added into fermentation broth to induce the expression of pathway enzymes, which further adds to the overall process cost. An autoregulatory system that can diminish the aromatics' toxicity as well as be substrate-inducible can be the key for successful integration of lignin valorization into future lignocellulosic biorefineries. Toward that goal, in this study an autoregulatory system is demonstrated that alleviates the toxicity issue and eliminates the cost of an external inducer. Specifically, this system is composed of a catechol biosynthesis pathway coexpressed with an active aromatic transporter CouP under induction by a vanillin self-inducible promoter, ADH7, to effectively convert the lignin-derived aromatics into value-added chemicals using

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BiomassBenzaldehydesCarrier ProteinsCatecholsEscherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, BacterialLigninMetabolic Networks and PathwaysRhodopseudomonasVanillic AcidBenzaldehydesCarrier ProteinscatecholCatecholsLigninVanillic Acidvanillinaromatics transporterautoregulatorycatechollignin valorizationvanillin-inducible promoter

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PMID29500185
PMCPMC5866589
OpenAlexW2792078736

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