Reprogramming Microbial Metabolic Pathways

Contributors 

Part I: Emerging Methods for Redesigning Microorganisms

1. Towards Synthetic Gene Circuits with Enhancers: Biology's Multi-input Integrators; Roee Amit2. Elementary Mode Analysis: A Useful Metabolic Pathway Analysis Tool for Reprograming Microbial Metabolic Pathways; Cong T. Trinh and R. Adam Thompson3. Evolutionary Engineering for Industrial Microbiology; Niti Vanee, Adam B. Fisher and Stephen S. Fong4. Monitoring Microbial Diversity of Bioreactors Using Metagenomic Approaches; Joshua T. Ellis, Ronald C. Sims and Charles D. Miller5. Synthetic Biology Triggers New Era of Antibiotics Development; Jianfeng Wang, Zhi-Qiang Xiong, Hailin Meng, Yiguang Wang and Yong Wang6. Cascades and Networks of Regulatory Genes That Control Antibiotic Biosynthesis; Juan F. Martín and Paloma Liras7. Systems Analysis of Microbial Adaptations to Simultaneous Stresses; Ross P. Carlson, Olusegun J. Oshota and Reed L. Taffs8. Metabolic Reprogramming under Microaerobic and Anaerobic Conditions in Bacteria; Yue Shan, Yong Lai and Aixin Yan9. Tunable Promoters in Synthetic and Systems Biology; Tore Dehli, Christian Solem and Peter Ruhdal Jensen10. Analysis of Corynebacterium glutamicum Promoters and Their Applications; Jan NeSvera, Jirí Holátko and Miroslav Pátek

Part II: Metabolic Engineering for Overproducing Chemicals and Materials

11. Production of Fumaric Acid by Fermentation; Adrie J.J. Straathof and Walter M. van Gulik12. Metabolic Engineering of Microorganisms for Vitamin C Production; Jingwen Zhou, Guocheng Du and Jian Chen13. Molecular Mechanisms and Metabolic Engineering of Glutamate Overproduction in Corynebacterium glutamicum; Takashi Hirasawa, Jongpill Kim, Tomokazu Shirai, Chikara Furusawa and Hiroshi Shimizu14. Microbial Metabolic Engineering for L-threonine Production; Xunyan Dong, Peter J. Quinn and Xiaoyuan Wang15. The Production of Coenzyme Q10 in Microorganisms; Corinne P. Cluis, Dominic Pinel and Vincent J. Martin16.