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ReviewNature communications2019

Synthetic biology strategies for microbial biosynthesis of plant natural products.

Aaron Cravens, James Payne, Christina D Smolke

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Review in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 170 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
170citing papers in PubMed
16.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

170 citing papers in PubMed, 410 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aaron CravensDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, MC 4245, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
James PayneDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, MC 4245, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Christina D SmolkeDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, MC 4245, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. csmolke@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · USChan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States) · US

Funding

Synthetic Biology Platforms for Natural Product Discovery and BiosynthesisDP1AT007886 · NCCIH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SMOLKE, CHRISTINA D · 2012 to 2016
$3.9M
Enzyme and Pathway Engineering for in vivo Production of Anticancer Noscapine DerivativesF32AT009509 · NCCIH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI PAYNE, JAMES THOMAS · 2017 to 2019
$178k
NCCIH NIH HHS DP1 AT007886NCCIH NIH HHS F32 AT009509
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic engineers endeavor to create a bio-based manufacturing industry using microbes to produce fuels, chemicals, and medicines. Plant natural products (PNPs) are historically challenging to produce and are ubiquitous in medicines, flavors, and fragrances. Engineering PNP pathways into new hosts requires finding or modifying a suitable host to accommodate the pathway, planning and implementing a biosynthetic route to the compound, and discovering or engineering enzymes for missing steps. In this review, we describe recent developments in metabolic engineering at the level of host, pathway, and enzyme, and discuss how the field is approaching ever more complex biosynthetic opportunities.

Indexed as

Biological ProductsBiosynthetic PathwaysEnzymesEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsMetabolic EngineeringMicroorganisms, Genetically-ModifiedPlantsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSynthetic BiologyBiological ProductsEnzymesEscherichia coli ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

Identifiers

PMID31086174
PMCPMC6513858
OpenAlexW2945456477

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