Microbial Genome Engineering for Production of Natural Products and Biopolymers
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2024 | Viewed by 110
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genome editing; metabolic engineering; recombineering; microbial products; pathway engineering; heterologous protein expression; protein engineering
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Interests: microbial engineering; industrial fermentation processes; regulation of mycotoxin synthesis
Interests: antimicrobials; biofilm control; biofilm-associated proteins; exopolysaccharides
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, tremendous progress has been made in synthetic biology, enabling the production of biochemicals, therapeutics, and food ingredients using a variety of host organisms. Synthetic biologists have enabled us to engineer microbial cells for useful purposes by rewriting and editing their genomes. With the emergence of a variety of powerful genome engineering techniques, such as the CRISPR/Cas systems, our ability to engineer microbial genomes has substantially improved in recent years.
However, rationally designing and reshaping a genome to produce the desired phenotype remains enormously difficult, and more genome engineering strategies need to be explored. To explore this fast-growing field, this Special Issue will cover the latest genome engineering tools, other synthetic biology techniques, and their application to give rise to improved or novel phenotypes in microorganisms for the production of natural products and biopolymers. New tools, methods, and future perspectives are of particular interest.
Dr. Cheng Li
Dr. Yangyong Lv
Dr. Yanrui Ye
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolic engineering
- synthetic biology
- microbial cell factories
- natural products
- biopolymers
- genome editing
- CRISPR
