The use of traditional chemical catalysis to produce chemicals has a series of drawbacks, such as high dependence on fossil resources, high energy consumption, and environmental pollution. With the development of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, the use of renewable biomass raw materials for chemicals synthesis by constructing efficient microbial cell factories is a green way to replace traditional chemical catalysis and traditional microbial fermentation. This review mainly summarizes several types of bulk chemicals and high value-added chemicals using metabolic engineering and synthetic biology strategies to achieve efficient microbial production. In addition, this review also summarizes several strategies for effectively regulating microbial cell metabolism. These strategies can achieve the coupling balance of material and energy by regulating intracellular material metabolism or energy metabolism, and promote the efficient production of target chemicals by microorganisms. 相似文献
Overproduction of small-molecule chemicals using engineered microbial cells has greatly reduced the production cost and promoted environmental protection. Notably, the rapid and sensitive evaluation of the in vivo concentrations of the desired products greatly facilitates the optimization process of cell factories. For this purpose, many genetic components have been adapted into in vivo biosensors of small molecules, which couple the intracellular concentrations of small molecules to easily detectable readouts such as fluorescence, absorbance, and cell growth. Such biosensors allow a high-throughput screening of the small-molecule products, and can be roughly classified as protein-based and RNA-based biosensors. This review summarizes the recent developments in the design and applications of biosensors for small-molecule products.