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ReviewBiotechnology journal2019

Pentose Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The Need to Engineer Global Regulatory Systems.

Venkatesh Endalur Gopinarayanan, Nikhil U Nair

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Review in Biotechnology journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. New insights into carbon metabolism in SFrontiers in fungal biology · 2025
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  10. Engineering ofEngineering microbiology · 2023
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  11. Advances inJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  13. Deletion ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
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  14. D-Xylose Sensing inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  16. Prospecting for L-arabinose/D-xylose symporters from Pichia guilliermondii and Aureobasidium leucospermi.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Venkatesh Endalur GopinarayananDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, U.S.A.
Nikhil U NairDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, U.S.A.
Tufts University · US

Funding

Metabolic engineering in humans: Altered gut microbes as a therapeutic platformDP2HD091798 · NICHD · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI NAIR, NIKHIL UNNI · 2016 to 2016
$2.3M
Division of Computing and Communication Foundations 1421972NICHD NIH HHS DP2 HD091798NIH Office of the Director 1DP2HD091798Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Tufts University Tufts CollaboratesTufts University Shirley and Stanley Charm Scholarship in Food
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extending the host substrate range of industrially relevant microbes, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been a highly-active area of research since the conception of metabolic engineering. Yet, rational strategies that enable non-native substrate utilization in this yeast without the need for combinatorial and/or evolutionary techniques are underdeveloped. Herein, this review focuses on pentose metabolism in S. cerevisiae as a case study to highlight the challenges in this field. In the last three decades, work has focused on expressing exogenous pentose metabolizing enzymes as well as endogenous enzymes for effective pentose assimilation, growth, and biofuel production. The engineering strategies that are employed for pentose assimilation in this yeast are reviewed, and compared with metabolism and regulation of native sugar, galactose. In the case of galactose metabolism, multiple signals regulate and aid growth in the presence of the sugar. However, for pentoses that are non-native, it is unclear if similar growth and regulatory signals are activated. Such a comparative analysis aids in identifying missing links in xylose and arabinose utilization. While research on pentose metabolism have mostly concentrated on pathway level optimization, recent transcriptomics analyses highlight the need to consider more global regulatory, structural, and signaling components.

Indexed as

ArabinoseGalactoseMetabolic EngineeringPentosesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSystems BiologyArabinoseGalactosePentosesSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinsarabinosegalactose metabolismpentoseSaccharomyces cerevisiaesystems biologyxylose regulon

Identifiers

PMID30171750
PMCPMC6452637
OpenAlexW2889191546

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