Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32772209›Full record

ReviewJournal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology2020

Back to the plant: overcoming roadblocks to the microbial production of pharmaceutically important plant natural products.

Natali Ozber, Jacinta L Watkins, Peter J Facchini

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Review in Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Heterologous Host for Natural Products.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  6. Engineering cellular metabolite transport for biosynthesis of computationally predicted tropane alkaloid derivatives in yeast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Natali OzberDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3946-4104
Jacinta L WatkinsDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-1331
Peter J FacchiniDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada. pfacchin@ulcalgary.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7693-290X
University of Calgary · CA

Funding

Genome Alberta A3GP16Government of Alberta Alberta Innovates G2018000889
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial fermentation platforms offer a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to plant cultivation and chemical synthesis for the production of many plant-derived pharmaceuticals. Plant alkaloids, particularly benzylisoquinoline alkaloids and monoterpene indole alkaloids, and recently cannabinoids have become attractive targets for microbial biosynthesis owing to their medicinal importance. Recent advances in the discovery of pathway components, together with the application of synthetic biology tools, have facilitated the assembly of plant alkaloid and cannabinoid pathways in the microbial hosts Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This review highlights key aspects of these pathways in the framework of overcoming bottlenecks in microbial production to further improve end-product titers. We discuss the opportunities that emerge from a better understanding of the pathway components by further study of the plant, and strategies for generation of new and advanced medicinal compounds.

Indexed as

Biological ProductsPlantsAlkaloidsBenzylisoquinolinesEscherichia coliFermentationMonoterpenesPharmaceutical PreparationsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSynthetic BiologyAlkaloidsBenzylisoquinolinesBiological ProductsMonoterpenesPharmaceutical PreparationsAlkaloidsCannabinoidsOpiatesPlant secondary metabolismSynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID32772209
OpenAlexW3048151311

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