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Electro-fermentation (EF) is an emerging tool for bioprocess intensification. Benefits are especially expected for bioprocesses in which the cells are enabled to exchange electrons with electrode surfaces dire...
N-glycosylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications. Many studies have shown that N-glycosylation has a significant effect on the secretion level of heterologous glycoproteins in yeas...
Skin is the largest organ in the human body, and the interplay between the environment factors and human skin leads to some skin diseases, such as acne, psoriasis, and atopic dermatitis. As the first line of h...
The regioselective hydroxylation of phenolic compounds, especially flavonoids, is still a bottleneck of classical organic chemistry that could be solved using enzymes with high activity and specificity. Yeast Rho...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is often used as a cell factory for the production of S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) for diverse pharmaceutical applications. However, SAM production by S. cerevisiae is negatively influe...
Bacillus subtilis, an important industrial microorganism, is commonly used in the production of industrial enzymes. Genome modification is often necessary to improve the production performance of cell. The dual-p...
Fungal perylenequinones (PQs) are a class of photoactivated polyketide mycotoxins produced by plant-associated fungi. Hypocrellins, the effective anticancer photodynamic therapy (PDT) agents are main bioactive...
Salmonella is a common foodborne pathogen, which can cause intestinal diseases. In the last decades, the overuse of antibiotics has led to a pandemic of drug-resistant bacterial infections. To tackle the burden ...
Escherichia coli is one of the most important hosts for production of recombinant proteins in biopharmaceutical industry. However, when selecting a suitable production strain, it is often not considered that a lo...
Cordyceps militaris is a traditional medicinal fungus contains a variety of functional ingredients and has been developed as an important mushroom food recently. Ergothioneine, one of the antioxidative compounds...
Isopropanol is widely used as a biofuel and a disinfectant. Chemical preparation of isopropanol destroys the environment, which makes biological preparation of isopropanol necessary. Previous studies focused o...
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a promising host for production of recombinant proteins (including antibodies and antibody fragments) that don’t require complex post-translational modifications such as glycosylatio...
Confronted with the exhaustion of the earth’s fossil fuel reservoirs, bio-based process to produce renewable energy is receiving significant interest. Hydrogen is considered as an attractive energy carrier tha...
Secondary metabolites have played a key role as starting points for drug development programs due to their often unique features compared with synthetically derived molecules. However, limitations related to t...
Native-like secondary structures and biological activity have been described for proteins in inclusion bodies (IBs). Tertiary structure analysis, however, is hampered due to the necessity of mild solubilizatio...
Microbial derived-surfactants display low eco-toxicity, diverse functionality, high biodegradability, high specificity, and stability under extreme conditions. Sophorolipids are emerging as key biosurfactants ...
Fuel ethanol from lignocellulose could be important source of renewable energy. However, to make the process feasible, more efficient microbial fermentation of pentose sugars, mainly xylose, should be achieved...
Riboflavin is a precursor of FMN and FAD which act as coenzymes of numerous enzymes. Riboflavin is an important biotechnological commodity with annual market sales exceeding nine billion US dollars. It is used...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae generally consumes glucose to produce ethanol accompanied by the main by-products of glycerol, acetic acid, and lactic acid. The minimization of the formation of by-products in S. cerevis...
In recent years, there has been a growing demand for microbial production of trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline (t4Hyp), which is a value-added amino acid and has been widely used in the fields of medicine, food, and cosm...
Itaconic acid (IA) is a versatile platform chemical widely used for the synthesis of various polymers and current methods for IA production based on Aspergillus terreus fermentation are limited in terms of proces...
Expansion of the genetic code is a frequently employed approach for the modification of recombinant protein properties. It involves reassignment of a codon to another, e.g., unnatural, amino acid and requires ...
The inclusion of biosafety strategies into strain engineering pipelines is crucial for safe-by-design biobased processes. This in turn might enable a more rapid regulatory acceptance of bioengineered organisms in...
Superoxide dismutases (SODs, EC 1.15.1.1) are defense proteins that can be used as sweepers to clear reactive oxygen species (ROS). They have been widely studied in the plant. Intensive research demonstrates t...
Sugar hydrolysates from lignocellulosic biomass are majorly composed of glucose and xylose that can be fermented to biofuels. Bacteria, despite having the natural ability to consume xylose are unable to consum...
Glutathione is a valuable tri-peptide that is industrially produced by fermentation using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and is widely used in the pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries. It has been r...
Scopoletin is a typical example of coumarins, which can be produced in plants. Scopoletin acts as a precursor for pharmaceutical and health care products, and also possesses promising biological properties, in...
The complexity, toxicity and abundance of frying oil waste (FOW) render it difficult to be degraded biologically. The aim of the present work was to valorize FOW and investigate the potential use of the produc...
2,3-butanediol is an important platform compound which has a wide range of applications, involving in medicine, chemical industry, food and other fields. Especially the optically pure (2R,3R)-2,3-butanediol ca...
The intracellular molecule trehalose in Saccharomyces cerevisiae may have a major protective function under extreme environmental conditions. NTH1 is one gene which expresses trehalase to degrade trehalose. Small...
The aromatic compound p-coumaric acid (p-CA) is a secondary metabolite produced by plants. This aromatic acid and derived compounds have positive effects on human health, so there is interest in producing them in...
Macrolactins, a type of macrolide antibiotic, are toxic to the producer strains. As such, its level is usually maintained below the lethal concentration during the fermentation process. To improve the producti...
Cyclic dipeptides are an important class of natural products owing to their structural diversity and biological activities. In fungi, the cyclo-ring system is formed through the condensation of two α-amino aci...
The fungal natural products illudin S and M have been investigated as precursors for the development of semisynthetic anticancer agents such as Irofulven (illudin S derivative) which is currently in phase II c...
Filamentous fungi are highly efficient at deconstructing plant biomass by secreting a variety of enzymes, but the complex enzymatic regulation underlying this process is not conserved and remains unclear.
Dysregulated production of interleukin (IL)-6 is implicated in the pathology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Neutralization of IL-6 in the gut by safe probiotic bacteria may help alleviate intestinal infl...
1,5-Diamino-2-hydroxy-pentane (2-OH-PDA), as a new type of aliphatic amino alcohol, has potential applications in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and materials industries. Currently, 2-OH-PDA production has only...
There are substantial environmental and health risks associated with the seafood industry's waste of crab shells. In light of these facts, shellfish waste management is critical for environmental protection ag...
Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a biopolymer and has various applications based on its biocompatibility, non-toxicity, and edibility. Low-molecular-weight (Mw)-γ-PGA has promising applications in agriculture a...
Functionally related genes in bacteria are often organized and transcribed as polycistronic transcriptional units. Examples are the fim operon, which codes for biogenesis of type 1 fimbriae in Escherichia coli, a...
Very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) and their derivatives are industrially attractive compounds. The most important are behenic acid (C22:0) and erucic acid (C22:1Δ13), which are used as lubricants, and moisturiz...
Vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency is associated with an altered microbiota in older men. However, the relationship between the gut microbiota and 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels remains unknown in pos...
Terrein, a major secondary metabolite from Aspergillus terreus, shows great potentials in biomedical and agricultural applications. However, the low fermentation yield of terrein in wild A. terreus strains limits...
Hypocrellin A (HA) is a perylene quinone pigment with high medicinal value that is produced by Shiraia bambusicola Henn. (S. bambusicola) and Hypocrella bambusae (Berk. & Broome) Sacc. (Ascomycetes) with great po...
Eukaryotic cells are often preferred for the production of complex enzymes and biopharmaceuticals due to their ability to form post-translational modifications and inherent quality control system within the en...
Bacterial type III secretion systems (T3SSs) assemble a multiprotein complex termed the injectisome, which acts as a molecular syringe for translocation of specific effector proteins into the cytoplasm of host...
Deinococcus wulumuqiensis R12, which was isolated from arid irradiated soil in Xinjiang province of China, belongs to a genus that is well-known for its extreme resistance to ionizing radiation and oxidative stre...
Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive bacterium used as a cell factory for protein production. Over the last decades, the continued optimization of production strains has increased yields of enzymes, such as amyla...
L-Carnosine is a natural biologically active dipeptide with critical physiological functions, such as antioxidant, antiglycation, and cytoplasmic buffering properties. Direct enzymatic synthesis is a promising...
In previous work, we developed an E. coli extracellular secretion platform XTHHly based on the hemolysin A secretion system. It can produce bioactive peptides with simple purification procedures. However, the wid...
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