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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2019

Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology: Synergies, Future, and Challenges.

Raúl García-Granados, Jordy Alexis Lerma-Escalera, José R Morones-Ramírez

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. ACS synthetic biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Raúl García-GranadosFacultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico.
Jordy Alexis Lerma-EscaleraFacultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico.
José R Morones-RamírezFacultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The "-omics" era has brought a new set of tools and methods that have created a significant impact on the development of Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology. These fields, rather than working separately, depend on each other to prosper and achieve their individual goals. Synthetic Biology aims to design libraries of genetic components (promoters, coding sequences, terminators, transcriptional factors and their binding sequences, and more), the assembly of devices, genetic circuits and even organism; in addition to obtaining quantitative information for the creation of models that can predict the behavior of biological systems (Cameron et al., 2014). Metabolic engineering seeks for the optimization of cellular processes, endemic to a specific organism, to produce a compound of interest from a substrate, preferably cheap and simple. It uses different databases, libraries of components and conditions to generate the maximum production rate of a desired chemical compound and avoiding inhibitors and conditions that affect the growth rate and other vital functions in the specific organism to achieve these goals; metabolic fluxes manipulation represents an important alternative (Stephanopoulos, 2012).

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bioengineeringbiotechnologymetabolic engineeringomics analysessynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID30886847
PMCPMC6409320

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