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ReviewMicrobial biotechnology2025

Unlocking the Synthetic Potential of Yarrowia lipolytica: Innovating Gene Expression Tools.

Xiaoqin Liu, Qingsheng Qi

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Review in Microbial biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. High Cell Density Fermentation ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Xiaoqin LiuState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, P.R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2032-0805
Qingsheng QiState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, P.R. China.

Funding

the National Key R&D Program of China 2024YFC3407100the National Natural Science Foundation of China U23A20268the Natural Science Foundation Youth Project of Shandong Province ZR2023QC310
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Yarrowia lipolytica, with its robust lipid metabolism capabilities, efficient secretion system and generally recognised as safe (GRAS) status, has become a highly promising microbial chassis in synthetic biology. However, compared with model microorganisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the underdevelopment of gene expression tools in Y. lipolytica has become a critical bottleneck, limiting its industrial application. Currently, its core tools face two critical challenges: promoters with limited dynamic regulatory capacity, leading to metabolic flux imbalance; and gene editing systems plagued by low efficiency and poor multiplex compatibility. This opinion article focuses on these two pivotal directions to dissect their technical bottlenecks and propose innovative solutions: constructing dynamic transcriptional regulatory modules through machine learning guided design and synthetic biology approaches and developing orthogonal CRISPR systems and multiplex editing platforms.

Indexed as

Gene ExpressionSynthetic BiologyYarrowiaGene EditingGene Expression Regulation, FungalMetabolic EngineeringPromoter Regions, Geneticgene editinggene expression toolspromoter engineeringYarrowia lipolytica

Identifiers

PMID40846678
PMCPMC12373488

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