Microbial Metabolism: From Pathway Analysis to Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 38
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Interests: microbiology; biotechnology; biodegradation; steroids; polyhydroxyalkanoates; aromatic compounds; polyethylene terephthalate; biogenic amines; polyamines
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Dear Colleagues,
Metabolism encompasses the intricate array of chemical reactions within each cell and organism, sustaining life, facilitating ecosystem processes, and influencing Earth's climate. The success of microorganisms in colonizing all niches is due to the development of numerous metabolic pathways that can adapt to a wide range of conditions. Some of these organisms can switch between various metabolic pathways and biochemical reactions, depending on environmental variables. Others meticulously adapt to particular and often demanding environments.
Therefore, understanding metabolism and its regulation in microorganisms is essential as a basis for fundamental research in laboratories around the world, as well as for practical applications in biotechnology, medicine, pharmaceutical development, and environmental sciences.
Metabolic engineering is the deliberate modification of known metabolic pathways in microorganisms used to improve the production of a desired substance or the efficiency of a metabolic process. Metabolic engineering plays a crucial role in improving the environmental sustainability of biotechnology industries. Thus, this discipline has already produced modified microbes currently used in industrial-scale operations and promises to remain a key technology.
In this Special Issue, we encourage collaboration among all contributing scientists, from those who base the processes analyzed on metabolic pathways and regulation in microorganisms to those redesigning metabolic mechanisms and creating new regulatory circuits.
Dr. Elias R. Olivera
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bacteria
- fungi
- archeobacteria
- metabolic pathways
- biodegradation
- biosynthesis
- biotransformation
- omic sciences
- metabolic engineering
- synthetic regulatory circuits
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