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ReviewAdvances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology2025

The Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum as Novel Production Host for Complex Substances.

Johann E Kufs, Christin Reimer, Lars Regestein

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Review in Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Johann E KufsResearch Group Genome Engineering and Editing, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. johann.kufs@uni-bielefeld.de.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1177-2255
Christin ReimerResearch Group Genome Engineering and Editing, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6288-0109
Lars RegesteinBio Pilot Plant, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI), Jena, Germany. lars.regestein@leibniz-hki.de.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1258-7171

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss the necessity of novel chassis organisms for the production of natural products to steer away from petrochemical approaches and the usage of common model organisms. We present the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum as a novel host for the production of complex organic substances and exploration of cryptic biosynthetic routes of secondary metabolites. We shed light on the genetic repertoire of the amoeba in terms of natural product biosyntheses and give an overview of growth characteristics, genetic engineering tools, and cultivation methodologies from shake flasks to stirred-tank bioreactors. Finally, an outlook is made on the perspective of D. discoideum as the chassis for biotechnological production and discovery of novel active substances.

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Biological ProductsBioreactorsDictyosteliumMetabolic EngineeringBiological ProductsActive substancesAmoebaeBiosynthetic gene clustersMetabolic engineeringMicrobial cell factoriesNatural productsPhytochemicalsSynthetic biology

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