Engineered probiotic-mediated intratumoral delivery and controlled release of bacterial collagenase for cancer therapy
2025
Elevated collagen levels within breast tumors are strongly associated with tumor progression and present a barrier to effective therapeutic agent penetration within the tumor microenvironment (TME),...
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Enhanced triacylglycerol metabolism contributes to the efficient biosynthesis of spinosad in Saccharopolyspora spinosa
December 2024
Triacylglycerol (TAG) is crucial for antibiotic biosynthesis derived from Streptomyces, as it serves as an important carbon source. In this study, the supplementation of exogenous TAG led to a 3.92-fold...
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Advances and perspectives in genetic expression and operation for the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
December 2024
The utilization of industrial biomanufacturing has emerged as a viable and sustainable alternative to fossil-based resources for producing functional chemicals. Moreover, advancements in synthetic biology...
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Digitoxose as powerful glycosyls for building multifarious glycoconjugates of natural products and un-natural products
December 2024
Digitoxose, a significant 2,6-dideoxyhexose found in nature, exists in many small-molecule natural products. These digitoxose-containing natural products can be divided into steroids, macrolides, macrolactams,...
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A systematic discussion and comparison of the construction methods of synthetic microbial community
December 2024
Synthetic microbial community has widely concerned in the fields of agriculture, food and environment over the past few years. However, there is little consensus on the method to synthetic microbial...
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A generative benchmark for evaluating the performance of fluorescent cell image segmentation
December 2024
Fluorescent cell imaging technology is fundamental in life science research, offering a rich source of image data crucial for understanding cell spatial positioning, differentiation, and decision-making...
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Development of multi-epitope mRNA vaccine against Clostridioides difficile using reverse vaccinology and immunoinformatics approaches
December 2024
Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile), as the major pathogen of diarrhea in healthcare settings, has become increasingly prevalent within community populations, resulting in significant morbidity...
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A highly efficient method for genomic deletion across diverse lengths in thermophilic Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius
December 2024
Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius is emerging as a highly promising thermophilic organism for metabolic engineering. The utilization of CRISPR-Cas technologies has facilitated programmable genetic...
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Combinatorial metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for de novo production of structurally defined and homogeneous Amino oligosaccharides
December 2024
Amino oligosaccharides (AOs) possess various biological activities and are valuable in the pharmaceutical, food industries, and agriculture. However, the industrial manufacturing of AOs has not been...
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Identification of a human type XVII collagen fragment with high capacity for maintaining skin health
December 2024
Collagen XVII (COL17) is a transmembrane protein that mediates skin homeostasis. Due to expression of full length collagen was hard to achieve in microorganisms, arising the needs for selection of collagen...
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Cyanamide-inducible expression of homing nuclease I−SceI for selectable marker removal and promoter characterisation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
December 2024
In synthetic biology, microbial chassis including yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are iteratively engineered with increasing complexity and scale. Wet-lab genetic engineering tools are developed and...
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The LysR family transcriptional regulator ORF-L16 regulates spinosad biosynthesis in Saccharopolyspora spinosa
December 2024
Spinosad, a potent broad-spectrum bioinsecticide produced by Saccharopolyspora spinosa, has significant market potential. Despite its effectiveness, the regulatory mechanisms of spinosad biosynthesis...
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Biochemical synthesis of taxanes from mevalonate
December 2024
Taxanes are kinds of diterpenoids with important bioactivities, such as paclitaxel (taxol®) is an excellent natural broad-spectrum anticancer drug. Attempts to biosynthesize taxanes have made with limited...
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Laccase is a multitasking protein for synthetic gene circuits in the yeast Saccharomycescerevisiae
December 2024
Laccase is a multicopper oxidase enzyme that oxidizes a variety of substrates, including polyphenols and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). It catalyzes the four-electron reduction of molecular...
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Automated characterization and analysis of expression compatibility between regulatory sequences and metabolic genes in Escherichia coli
December 2024
Utilizing standardized artificial regulatory sequences to fine-tuning the expression of multiple metabolic pathways/genes is a key strategy in the creation of efficient microbial cell factories. However,...
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Overexpression of arginase gene CAR1 renders yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae acetic acid tolerance
December 2024
Acetic acid is a common inhibitor present in lignocellulose hydrolysate, which inhibits the ethanol production by yeast strains. Therefore, the cellulosic ethanol industry requires yeast strains that...
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Transportation engineering for enhanced production of plant natural products in microbial cell factories
December 2024
Plant natural products (PNPs) exhibit a wide range of biological activities and have essential applications in various fields such as medicine, agriculture, and flavors. Given their natural limitations,...
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Screening and characterization of integration sites based on CRISPR-Cpf1 in Pichia pastoris
December 2024
Pichia pastoris, a methylotrophic yeast, can utilize methanol as a carbon source and energy source to synthesize high-value chemicals, and is an ideal host for biomanufacturing. Constructing the P....
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Stepwise increase of fidaxomicin in an engineered heterologous host Streptomyces albus through multi-level metabolic engineering
December 2024
The anti-Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) drug fidaxomicin is a natural polyketide metabolite mainly produced by Micromonosporaceae, such as Actinoplanes deccanensis, Dactylosporangium aurantiacum,...
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Synergistic increase in coproporphyrin III biosynthesis by mitochondrial compartmentalization in engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae
December 2024
Coproporphyrin III (CP III), a natural porphyrin derivative, has extensive applications in the biomedical and material industries. S. cerevisiae has previously been engineered to highly accumulate the...
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Comparative omics directed gene discovery and rewiring for normal temperature-adaptive red pigment synthesis by polar psychrotrophic fungus Geomyces sp. WNF-15A
December 2024
The Antarctic fungus Geomyces sp. WNF-15A can produce high-quality red pigments (AGRP) with good prospects for the use in food and cosmetic area. However, efficient AGRP synthesis relies on low-temperature...
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Liposome-based RNAi delivery in honeybee for inhibiting parasite Nosema ceranae
December 2024
Nosema ceranae, a parasite that parasitizes and reproduces in the gut of honeybees, has become a serious threat to the global apiculture industry. RNA interference (RNAi) technology can be used to inhibit...
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Auxotrophy-based curation improves the consensus genome-scale metabolic model of yeast
December 2024
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a widely utilized model organism, has seen continuous updates to its genome-scale metabolic model (GEM) to enhance the prediction performance for metabolic engineering and...
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New N-acylated aminoalkanoic acids from tea roots derived biocontrol agent Clonostachys rosea 15020
December 2024
Four new N-acylated aminoalkanoic acids, namely clonoroseins E−H (1−4), together with three previously identified analogs, clonoroseins A, B, and D (5−7), were identified from the endophytic fungus...
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Engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum for the efficient production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid from glucose via the β-alanine pathway
December 2024
3-Hydroxypropionic Acid (3-HP) is recognized as a high value-added chemical with a broad range of applications. Among the various biosynthetic pathways for 3-HP production, the β-alanine pathway is...
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