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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Metabolic Engineering of Microbial Cell Factories for Biosynthesis of Flavonoids: A Review.

Hanghang Lou, Lifei Hu, Hongyun Lu, Tianyu Wei, Qihe Chen

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. 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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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hanghang LouDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Lifei HuHubei Key Lab of Quality and Safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Health Food, Huangshi 435100, China.
Hongyun LuDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Tianyu WeiDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Qihe ChenDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3862-4356

Funding

Public Projects of Zhejiang Province LGF18C200003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flavonoids belong to a class of plant secondary metabolites that have a polyphenol structure. Flavonoids show extensive biological activity, such as antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic, anti-cancer, and antibacterial properties, so they are widely used in the food, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical industries. However, traditional sources of flavonoids are no longer sufficient to meet current demands. In recent years, with the clarification of the biosynthetic pathway of flavonoids and the development of synthetic biology, it has become possible to use synthetic metabolic engineering methods with microorganisms as hosts to produce flavonoids. This article mainly reviews the biosynthetic pathways of flavonoids and the development of microbial expression systems for the production of flavonoids in order to provide a useful reference for further research on synthetic metabolic engineering of flavonoids. Meanwhile, the application of co-culture systems in the biosynthesis of flavonoids is emphasized in this review.

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BioreactorsCoculture TechniquesEscherichia coliFermentationFlavonoidsMetabolic EngineeringMolecular StructurePlantsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSecondary MetabolismSynthetic BiologyFlavonoidsbiosynthesisco-culture systemflavonoidsmetabolic engineeringmicrobial cell factories

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PMID34361675
PMCPMC8348848

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