New Insights into Amino Acid Biosynthesis
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Metabolism, Physiology & Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 11802
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fundamental metabolic regulation; biomass utilization; synthetic biology; high efficient separation and purification, functional materials; artificial intelligence based chemical engineering and synthetic biology
Interests: chemical engineer; biochemistry; metabolic engineering; biological catalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Amino acid biosynthesis has been extensively studied in a variety of microorganisms, fungi and plants. Furthermore, the involvement of the amino acid biosynthesis pathways in central and specialized metabolism still raises major questions regarding the genes and enzymes involved, and their control, their evolutionary origins and coordinated regulation with genes of associated pathways in response to altered environmental conditions and diverse developmental programs. Metabolic engineering, which is based on the acknowledgement of the biological mechanisms of the synthesis of amino acids, is a novel strategy of artificial pathway design and manufacture. Additionally, its combination with synthetic biology has led to the creation of a promising field in chemicals and food science research and industry. The strategy of co-culturing strains or co-producing chemicals can also be used to maximize the use of fermentation raw materials. In addition, it is necessary to explore more mature fermentation modes and pay attention to the substrate/product inhibition of strains according to the conditions for amino acid production. Today, some chemical synthesis methods, such as electrocatalytic reduction, photocatalytic reaction, etc., are also integrated into bio-systems to enhance amino acid production, including synthetic amino acids.
This Special Issue comprises new studies and reviews addressing the biosynthesis of amino acids by fermentation, especially the pathway regulation mechanism of the natural pathways and artificial pathways, and yield improvement through metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, and even related novel chemical synthetic methods, and separation and purification technologies.
Dr. Dan Wang
Dr. Jie Cheng
Guest Editors
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