Metabolic engineering: Use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in Escherichia coli

Metabolic engineering was formally defined more than two decades ago (Bailey, 1991) and it is now an established discipline. Metabolic engineering is generally defined as the directed improvement of product formation or cellular properties through the modification of specific biochemical reactions o...

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spelling oai:scielo:S0717-345820130003000172013-08-22Metabolic engineering: Use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in Escherichia coliGonzalez,Ramon biofuels Escherichia coli metabolic engineering systems biology Metabolic engineering was formally defined more than two decades ago (Bailey, 1991) and it is now an established discipline. Metabolic engineering is generally defined as the directed improvement of product formation or cellular properties through the modification of specific biochemical reactions or the introduction of new ones with the use of recombinant DNA technology (Bailey, 1991; Stephanopoulos et al. 1998). Therefore, the analysis and engineering/synthesis of metabolic pathways is of central importance to metabolic engineering. The analytical part uses a number of experimental and modeling techniques for the systematic study of cellular responses (in terms of RNA, protein and metabolite levels, metabolic fluxes, etc.) to genetic and environmental perturbations. This facilitates a rational design of metabolic modifications, which are implemented using recombinant DNA technology. Both, the analysis and the synthesis of metabolic pathways will be covered in this review. Recent efforts on the engineering of fermentative and biosynthetic pathways for biofuel production in Escherichia coli, as well as those enabling the utilization of novel feedstocks, will be highlighted.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoElectronic Journal of Biotechnology v.16 n.3 20132013-05-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582013000300017en10.2225/vol16-issue3-fulltext-14
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topic biofuels
Escherichia coli
metabolic engineering
systems biology
spellingShingle biofuels
Escherichia coli
metabolic engineering
systems biology
Gonzalez,Ramon
Metabolic engineering: Use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in Escherichia coli
description Metabolic engineering was formally defined more than two decades ago (Bailey, 1991) and it is now an established discipline. Metabolic engineering is generally defined as the directed improvement of product formation or cellular properties through the modification of specific biochemical reactions or the introduction of new ones with the use of recombinant DNA technology (Bailey, 1991; Stephanopoulos et al. 1998). Therefore, the analysis and engineering/synthesis of metabolic pathways is of central importance to metabolic engineering. The analytical part uses a number of experimental and modeling techniques for the systematic study of cellular responses (in terms of RNA, protein and metabolite levels, metabolic fluxes, etc.) to genetic and environmental perturbations. This facilitates a rational design of metabolic modifications, which are implemented using recombinant DNA technology. Both, the analysis and the synthesis of metabolic pathways will be covered in this review. Recent efforts on the engineering of fermentative and biosynthetic pathways for biofuel production in Escherichia coli, as well as those enabling the utilization of novel feedstocks, will be highlighted.
author Gonzalez,Ramon
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title Metabolic engineering: Use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in Escherichia coli
title_short Metabolic engineering: Use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in Escherichia coli
title_full Metabolic engineering: Use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in Escherichia coli
title_fullStr Metabolic engineering: Use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in Escherichia coli
title_full_unstemmed Metabolic engineering: Use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in Escherichia coli
title_sort metabolic engineering: use of system-level approaches and application to fuel production in escherichia coli
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
publishDate 2013
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