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Biosynthesis of Poly(3HB- co-3HP) with Variable Monomer Composition in Recombinant Cupriavidus necator H16 (2021)
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McGregor, C., Minton, N. P., & Kovács, K. (2021). Biosynthesis of Poly(3HB- co-3HP) with Variable Monomer Composition in Recombinant Cupriavidus necator H16. ACS Synthetic Biology, 10(12), 3343-3352. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.1c00283

Polyhydroxyalkanoates are attractive alternatives to traditional plastics. However, although polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is produced in large quantities by Cupriavidus necator H16, its properties are far from ideal for the manufacture of plastic produc... Read More about Biosynthesis of Poly(3HB- co-3HP) with Variable Monomer Composition in Recombinant Cupriavidus necator H16.

The pMTL70000 modular, plasmid vector series for strain engineering in Cupriavidus necator H16 (2021)
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Ehsaan, M., Baker, J., Kovács, K., Malys, N., & Minton, N. P. (2021). The pMTL70000 modular, plasmid vector series for strain engineering in Cupriavidus necator H16. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 189, Article 106323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2021.106323

Cupriavidus necator H16 can convert CO2 into industrial chemicals and fuels. To facilitate its engineering, we designed, built and tested the pMTL70000 modular plasmids comprising standardised Cupriavidus and E. coli replicons, selectable markers and... Read More about The pMTL70000 modular, plasmid vector series for strain engineering in Cupriavidus necator H16.

What's a SNP between friends: The lineage of Clostridioides difficile R20291 can effect research outcomes (2021)
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Monteford, J., Bilverstone, T. W., Ingle, P., Philip, S., Kuehne, S. A., & Minton, N. P. (2021). What's a SNP between friends: The lineage of Clostridioides difficile R20291 can effect research outcomes. Anaerobe, 71, Article 102422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102422

Clostridioides difficile R20291 is the most studied PCR-Ribotype 027 isolate. The two predominant lineages of this hypervirulent strain, however, exhibit substantive phenotypic differences and possess genomes that differ by a small number of nucleoti... Read More about What's a SNP between friends: The lineage of Clostridioides difficile R20291 can effect research outcomes.

Engineering improved ethylene production: Leveraging systems Biology and adaptive laboratory evolution (2021)
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Vaud, S., Pearcy, N., Hanževački, M., Van Hagen, A. M., Abdelrazig, S., Safo, L., …Bryan, S. J. (2021). Engineering improved ethylene production: Leveraging systems Biology and adaptive laboratory evolution. Metabolic Engineering, 67, 308-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2021.07.001

Ethylene is a small hydrocarbon gas widely used in the chemical industry. Annual worldwide production currently exceeds 150 million tons, producing considerable amounts of CO2 contributing to climate change. The need for a sustainable alternative is... Read More about Engineering improved ethylene production: Leveraging systems Biology and adaptive laboratory evolution.

Development of a Suite of Tools for Genome Editing in Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius and Their Use to Identify the Potential of a Native Plasmid in the Generation of Stable Engineered Strains (2021)
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Lau, M. S. H., Sheng, L., Zhang, Y., & Minton, N. P. (2021). Development of a Suite of Tools for Genome Editing in Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius and Their Use to Identify the Potential of a Native Plasmid in the Generation of Stable Engineered Strains. ACS Synthetic Biology, 10(7), 1739-1749. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.1c00138

The relentless rise in the levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases caused by the exploitation of fossil fuel necessitates the development of more environmentally friendly routes to the manufacture of chemicals and fuels. The exploitation of a fermenta... Read More about Development of a Suite of Tools for Genome Editing in Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius and Their Use to Identify the Potential of a Native Plasmid in the Generation of Stable Engineered Strains.

Quantitative Bioreactor Monitoring of Intracellular Bacterial Metabolites in Clostridium autoethanogenum Using Liquid Chromatography–Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry (2021)
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Safo, L., Abdelrazig, S., Grosse-Honebrink, A., Millat, T., Henstra, A. M., Norman, R., …Barrett, D. A. (2021). Quantitative Bioreactor Monitoring of Intracellular Bacterial Metabolites in Clostridium autoethanogenum Using Liquid Chromatography–Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry. ACS Omega, 6, 13518-13526. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c05588

We report a liquid chromatography–isotope dilution mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous quantification of 131 intracellular bacterial metabolites of Clostridium autoethanogenum. A comprehensive mixture of uniformly 13C-labeled internal stand... Read More about Quantitative Bioreactor Monitoring of Intracellular Bacterial Metabolites in Clostridium autoethanogenum Using Liquid Chromatography–Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry.

Development of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum as a Whole Cell Biocatalyst for Production of Chirally Pure (R)-1,3-Butanediol (2021)
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Grosse-Honebrink, A., Little, G. T., Bean, Z., Heldt, D., Cornock, R. H. M., Winzer, K., …Zhang, Y. (2021). Development of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum as a Whole Cell Biocatalyst for Production of Chirally Pure (R)-1,3-Butanediol. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9, Article 659895. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.659895

Chirally pure (R)-1,3-butanediol ((R)-1,3-BDO) is a valuable intermediate for the production of fragrances, pheromones, insecticides and antibiotics. Biotechnological production results in superior enantiomeric excess over chemical production and is... Read More about Development of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum as a Whole Cell Biocatalyst for Production of Chirally Pure (R)-1,3-Butanediol.

Colonisation factor cd0873, an attractive oral vaccine candidate against clostridioides difficile (2021)
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Karyal, C., Hughes, J., Kelly, M. L., Cockayne, A., Luckett, J. C., Kaye, P. V., …Griffin, R. (2021). Colonisation factor cd0873, an attractive oral vaccine candidate against clostridioides difficile. Microorganisms, 9(2), Article 306. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020306

Clostridioides difficile is the main cause of health-care-associated infectious diarrhoea. Toxins, TcdA and TcdB, secreted by this bacterium damage colonic epithelial cells and in severe cases this culminates in pseudomembranous colitis, toxic megaco... Read More about Colonisation factor cd0873, an attractive oral vaccine candidate against clostridioides difficile.