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ArticleNature chemical biology2020

Pyruvate-responsive genetic circuits for dynamic control of central metabolism.

Xianhao Xu, Xueliang Li, Yanfeng Liu, Yonglian Zhu, Jianghua Li, Guocheng Du, Jian Chen, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Long Liu

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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65 citing papers in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Xianhao XuKey Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
Xueliang LiKey Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7111-8485
Yanfeng LiuKey Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
Yonglian ZhuKey Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
Jianghua LiKey Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
Guocheng DuKey Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
Jian ChenKey Laboratory of industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. jchen@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Rodrigo Ledesma-AmaroDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2631-5898
Long LiuKey Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. longliu@jiangnan.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9679-9130

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R01602X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamic regulation is a promising strategy for fine-tuning metabolic fluxes in microbial cell factories. However, few of these synthetic regulatory systems have been developed for central carbon metabolites. Here we created a set of programmable and bifunctional pyruvate-responsive genetic circuits for dynamic dual control (activation and inhibition) of central metabolism in Bacillus subtilis. We used these genetic circuits to design a feedback loop control system that relies on the intracellular concentration of pyruvate to fine-tune the target metabolic modules, leading to the glucaric acid titer increasing from 207 to 527 mg l

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Amino Acid SequenceBacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsEscherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGene Regulatory NetworksGenomic LibraryGlucaric AcidGlucoseHistidineInositolLogicMetabolic EngineeringMetabolomeModels, GeneticOligopeptidesBacterial ProteinsGlucaric AcidGlucoseHis-His-His-His-His-HisHistidineInositolOligopeptidesPyruvic AcidTranscription Factors

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