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ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

Balancing Cell Growth and Product Synthesis for Efficient Microbial Cell Factories.

Linxia Liu, Dongqin Ding, Huiying Wang, Xinyi Ren, Sang Yup Lee, Dawei Zhang

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Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Balancing Cell Growth and Product Synthesis for Efficient Microbial Cell Factories.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Linxia LiuTianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, 300308, China.
Dongqin DingTianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, 300308, China.
Huiying WangTianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, 300308, China.
Xinyi RenTianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, 300308, China.
Sang Yup LeeDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 four program), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0599-3091
Dawei ZhangTianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, 300308, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5857-394X

Funding

International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 306GJHZ2023019GCNational Key R&D Program of China 2020YFA0907800National Natural Science Foundation of China 22178372National Natural Science Foundation of China 32200049National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars 22325807
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sustainable, bio-based production of industrially valuable chemicals and materials from renewable, non-edible biomass through biorefineries has emerged as a vital strategy for tackling urgent global challenges, including climate change, and for realizing the "net zero carbon" commitments recently pledged by nations worldwide. Metabolic engineering has played a central role in enabling the development of microbial strains capable of efficiently overproducing a diverse array of target compounds. Nevertheless, engineered microbial cell factories often face inherent trade-offs between product synthesis and cell growth, frequently resulting in diminished fitness or loss-of-function phenotypes. This review highlights recent advances in metabolic engineering strategies aims at reconciling this conflict, encompassing pathway optimization, dynamic regulation, orthogonal system design, microbial consortia engineering, fermentation process control, and integrative metabolic modeling. It also explores the remaining challenges and future directions for reprogramming microbial metabolism to harmonize growth with high-level production.

Indexed as

Metabolic EngineeringFermentationcell growthdynamic regulationfermentation process controlmicrobial cell factoriesmicrobial consortia engineeringorthogonal system designproduct synthesis

Identifiers

PMID40966432
PMCPMC12561436

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