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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Directed evolution of material-producing microorganisms.

Julie M Laurent, Ankit Jain, Anton Kan, Mathias Steinacher, Nadia Enrriquez Casimiro, Stavros Stavrakis, Andrew J deMello, André R Studart

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Genetic Impacts on the Structure and Mechanics of Cellulose Made by Bacteria.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  15. Evolving materials.Nature materials · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Julie M LaurentDepartment of Materials, Complex Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5198-1326
Ankit JainDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9123-5945
Anton KanDepartment of Materials, Complex Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9058-0464
Mathias SteinacherDepartment of Materials, Complex Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5906-7803
Nadia Enrriquez CasimiroDepartment of Materials, Complex Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2084-0918
Stavros StavrakisDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0888-5953
Andrew J deMelloDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1943-1356
André R StudartDepartment of Materials, Complex Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4205-8545

Funding

ETH Zurich ETH-40 21-1Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) 200020_204614
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nature is home to a variety of microorganisms that create materials under environmentally friendly conditions. While this offers an attractive approach for sustainable manufacturing, the production of materials by native microorganisms is usually slow and synthetic biology tools to engineer faster microorganisms are only available when prior knowledge of genotype-phenotype links is available. Here, we utilize a high-throughput directed evolution platform to enhance the fitness of whole microorganisms under selection pressure and identify genetic pathways to enhance the material production capabilities of native species. Using

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CelluloseDirected Molecular EvolutionAcetobacteraceaeMutationPhenotypeCellulosecellulosedirected evolutionliving materialsmicrofluidicsmicroorganisms

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PMID39042685
PMCPMC11295069

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