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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2021

Biosensor-Based Multigene Pathway Optimization for Enhancing the Production of Glycolate.

Shumin Xu, Linpei Zhang, Shenghu Zhou, Yu Deng

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shumin XuNational Engineering Laboratory for Cereal Fermentation Technology (NELCF), Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Linpei ZhangKey Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Shenghu ZhouNational Engineering Laboratory for Cereal Fermentation Technology (NELCF), Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Yu DengNational Engineering Laboratory for Cereal Fermentation Technology (NELCF), Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Jiangnan University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycolate is widely used in industry, especially in the fields of chemical cleaning, cosmetics, and medical materials, and has broad market prospects for the future. Recent advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology have significantly improved the titer and yield of glycolate. However, an expensive inducer was used in previous studies, which is not feasible for use in large-scale industrial fermentations. To constitutively biosynthesize glycolate, the expression level of each gene of the glycolate synthetic pathway needs to be systemically optimized. The main challenge of multigene pathway optimization is being able to select or screen the optimum strain from the randomly assembled library by an efficient high-throughput method within a short time. To overcome these challenges, we firstly established a glycolate-responsive biosensor and developed agar plate- and 48-well deep-well plate-scale high-throughput screening methods for the rapid screening of superior glycolate producers from a large library. A total of 22 gradient-strength promoter-5'-untranslated region (UTR) complexes were randomly cloned upstream of the genes of the glycolate synthetic pathway, generating a large random assembled library. After rounds of screening, the optimum strain was obtained from 6 × 10

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Biosensing TechniquesBacterial ProteinsBioreactorsEscherichia coliFermentationGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGlycolatesHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysMetabolic EngineeringPlasmidsPromoter Regions, GeneticBacterial ProteinsGlycolatesglycolic acidbiosensorglycolatehigh-throughput screeningmetabolic engineeringsynthetic biology

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PMID33837017
PMCPMC8174665
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