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Abstract
Sterols, crucial structural components of cellular membranes, exhibit essential biological functions and serve as key intermediates in the agricultural and pharmaceutical industries. Recent advances in synthetic biology have established Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a robust microbial chassis for sterol biosynthesis. Through strategic integration of heterologous pathways and systematic enhancement of metabolic flux, this eukaryotic platform has enabled de novo synthesis of diverse high-value steroids. This review systematically examines recent progress in metabolic engineering of S. cerevisiae for sterol biosynthesis and overproduction.
期刊介绍:
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.