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Abstract
Insect sex pheromones (ISPs) can act as baits to trap heterosexual insects, representing a promising biocontrol strategy. However, current industrial production of ISPs relies largely on conventional chemical synthesis, which shows drawbacks, such as low yield and environmental pollution. Fortunately, remarkable progress in metabolic pathway engineering opens the possibility of biomanufacturing ISPs in microbial cell factories, which seems to be superior to chemical synthesis. While previous reviews have summarized pathways and enzymes related to the biosynthesis of ISPs, this review zeroes in on the enzymatic structures and catalytic mechanisms. In particular, we propose a potential pathway and discuss strategies for the heterologous biosynthesis of type-I ISPs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a suitable host for expressing enzymes, especially those requiring post-translational modifications. Overall, this review seeks to provide valuable insights for the complete biosynthesis of type-I ISPs.
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The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the design of systems; and integrative applied approaches to understanding disease and metabolism.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Design and optimization of genetic systems
Genetic circuit design and their principles for their organization into programs
Computational methods to aid the design of genetic systems
Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes
Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation
Protein engineering including computational design
Metabolic engineering and cellular manufacturing, including biomass conversion
Natural product access, engineering, and production
Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming
Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells
Minimal cell design and construction
Genomics and genome replacement strategies
Viral engineering
Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology
DNA synthesis methodologies
Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis
Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction
Gene optimization
Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics
Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources
in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming
Nucleic acid engineering.