Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology

Papers
(The median citation count of Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nobachelins, new siderophores from Nocardiopsis baichengensis protecting Caenorhabditis elegans from Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection82
Outside Front Cover72
Evaluation and optimization of analytical procedure and sample preparation for polar Streptomyces albus J1074 metabolome profiling62
Promoting the production of challenging proteins via induced expression in CHO cells and modified cell-free lysates harboring T7 RNA polymerase and mutant eIF2α55
Metabolic engineering of Glarea lozoyensis for high-level production of pneumocandin B052
A hybrid RNA-protein biosensor for high-throughput screening of adenosylcobalamin biosynthesis51
Parallel screening and cheminformatics modeling of flavonoid activated aptasensors49
Quorum sensing inhibition of hordenine analogs on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens45
The biological principles and advanced applications of DSB repair in CRISPR-mediated yeast genome editing42
Pangenome analysis of Enterobacteria reveals richness of secondary metabolite gene clusters and their associated gene sets41
Biotechnological and food synthetic biology potential of platform strain: Bacillus licheniformis40
Thank you Reviewers38
Degradation strategies of pesticide residue: From chemicals to synthetic biology38
Single and multiplexed gene repression in solventogenic Clostridium via Cas12a-based CRISPR interference35
Design and construction of microbial cell factories based on systems biology34
Efficient production of 2′-fucosyllactose in unconventional yeast Yarrowia lipolytica34
Microbial production of cis,cis-muconic acid from aromatic compounds in engineered Pseudomonas33
DIProT: A deep learning based interactive toolkit for efficient and effective Protein design31
Cost-effective hybrid long-short read assembly delineates alternative GC-rich Streptomyces hosts for natural product discovery31
Morphology-engineered alleviation of mycelial aggregation in Streptomyces chassis for potentiated production of secondary metabolites29
Achieving robust synthetic tolerance in industrial E. coli through negative auto-regulation of a DsrA-Hfq module29
Automated characterization and analysis of expression compatibility between regulatory sequences and metabolic genes in Escherichia coli29
Research progress of pathway and genome evolution in microbes28
Integration of metabolic and evolutionary processes to construct efficient xylose-utilizing strain of Zymomonas mobilis for lignocellulosic ethanol production28
WITHDRAWN: Recent Advances in the Microbial Synthesis of Human Hemoglobin27
Systemically functional characterization of regiospecific flavonoid O-methyltransferases from Glycine max27
Cofactor manipulation to drive biosynthesis of natural products27
Association between the nasopharyngeal microbiome and metabolome in patients with COVID-1927
Design and thermodynamic analysis of a pathway enabling anaerobic production of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate in Escherichia coli26
Explore the dominant factor in prime editing via a view of DNA processing26
CgVeA, a light signaling responsive regulator, is involved in regulation of chaetoglobosin A biosynthesis and conidia development in Chaetomium globosum24
Characterization of putative mannoprotein in Kluyveromyces lactis for lactase production24
Comparative functional genomics identifies an iron-limited bottleneck in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with a cytosolic-localized isobutanol pathway24
Surface display of carbonic anhydrase on Escherichia coli for CO2 capture and mineralization22
Engineering caveolin-mediated endocytosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae22
Enhanced depolluting capabilities of microbial bioelectrochemical systems by synthetic biology22
Assessing the physiological properties of baker's yeast based on single-cell Raman spectrum technology22
Engineering Komagataella phaffii to biosynthesize cordycepin from methanol which drives global metabolic alterations at the transcription level22
Synergetic engineering of Escherichia coli for efficient production of l-tyrosine22
Analysis of the relationship between bile duct and duodenal microbiota reveals that potential dysbacteriosis is the main cause of primary common bile duct stones21
Integrating PCR-free amplification and synergistic sensing for ultrasensitive and rapid CRISPR/Cas12a-based SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection21
Synthetic biotechnology for C1 bio-refinery21
Efficient genome editing in Claviceps purpurea using a CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein method21
Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica to produce nutritional fatty acids: Current status and future perspectives21
Polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins as an exogenously applied natural solution for prevention of postharvest fungal infections21
CRISPR/Cpf1–FOKI-induced gene editing in Gluconobacter oxydans19
Identification of crucial roles of transcription factor IhfA on high production of free fatty acids in Escherichia coli18
Engineering and characterization of dehalogenase enzymes from Delftia acidovorans in bioremediation of perfluorinated compounds18
Advances and perspectives in genetic expression and operation for the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica18
Glycosyltransferases: Mining, engineering and applications in biosynthesis of glycosylated plant natural products18
Putative functions of EpsK in teichuronic acid synthesis and phosphate starvation in Bacillus licheniformis17
Systematic metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for efficient production of phytohormone abscisic acid17
Malic enzyme-based system for transhydrogenation between nicotinamide cofactors17
Way to efficient microbial paclitaxel mass production17
Improvement of betanin biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by metabolic engineering17
Development of multi-epitope mRNA vaccine against Clostridioides difficile using reverse vaccinology and immunoinformatics approaches17
Plant metabolism and synthetic biology17
Investigation of carbonyl amidation and O-methylation during biosynthesis of the pharmacophore pyridyl of antitumor piericidins17
Metabolic engineering of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens for efficient production of α-glucosidase inhibitor1-deoxynojirimycin17
Protein-protein interface analysis of the non-ribosomal peptide synthetase peptidyl carrier protein and enzymatic domains16
Improved l-phenylglycine synthesis by introducing an engineered cofactor self-sufficient system16
Increasing prediction performance of colorectal cancer disease status using random forests classification based on metagenomic shotgun sequencing data16
One stone two birds: Biosynthesis of 3-hydroxypropionic acid from CO2 and syngas-derived acetic acid in Escherichia coli16
Toehold switch based biosensors for sensing the highly trafficked rosewood Dalbergia maritima15
Aptamer-based cell-free detection system to detect target protein15
Designing a multi-epitope vaccine against Peptostreptococcus anaerobius based on an immunoinformatics approach15
Transcriptome analysis reveals methanol metabolism variations for the growth damage caused by overexpression of chimeric transactivators in Pichia pastoris15
Applications of protein engineering in the microbial synthesis of plant triterpenoids15
Biochemical synthesis of taxanes from mevalonate15
A CRISPR/Cas9-based visual toolkit enabling multiplex integration at specific genomic loci in Aspergillus niger15
A systematic discussion and comparison of the construction methods of synthetic microbial community14
Conversion of acetate and glyoxylate to fumarate by a cell-free synthetic enzymatic biosystem14
Engineering Rubisco to enhance CO2 utilization14
Directed evolution of the fusion enzyme for improving astaxanthin biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae14
CRISPR/Cas12a-based genome editing for cyanophage of Anabeana sp.14
Mechanistic insights into the orthogonal functionality of an AHL-mediated quorum-sensing circuit in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis13
EMT transcription factors activated circuits: A novel tool to study EMT dynamics and its therapeutic implications13
Synthetic biology techniques to tackle heavy metal pollution and poisoning13
Probing the growth and mechanical properties of Bacillus subtilis biofilms through genetic mutation strategies13
CO2-elevated cell-free protein synthesis13
Genus-specific secondary metabolome in Allokutzneria and Kibdelosporangium13
O-glycosyltransferases from Homo sapiens contributes to the biosynthesis of Glycyrrhetic Acid 3-O-mono-β-D-glucuronide and Glycyrrhizin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae12
Transcriptome-wide analysis of PIP reductase gene family identified a phenylpropene synthase crucial for the biosynthesis of dibenzocyclooctadiene lignans in Schisandra chinensis12
Single carbon metabolism – A new paradigm for microbial bioprocesses?12
Harnessing microbial heterogeneity for improved biosynthesis fueled by synthetic biology12
Laccase is a multitasking protein for synthetic gene circuits in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae11
Simulating androgen receptor selection in designer yeast11
MTD: A cloud-based omics database and interactive platform for Myceliophthora thermophila11
DNA storage: The future direction for medical cold data storage11
Engineering the thermostability of d-lyxose isomerase from Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus via multiple computer-aided rational design for efficient synthesis of d-mannose11
Multi-strategy engineering unusual sugar TDP-l-mycarose biosynthesis to improve the production of 3-O-α-mycarosylerythronolide B in Escherichia coli11
Topoisomerase II-Like variants enhance acid tolerance and low-pH L-malic acid biosynthesis in metabolic engineered Aspergillus nidulans11
Integrated pathway engineering and transcriptome analysis for improved astaxanthin biosynthesis in Yarrowia lipolytica11
Engineered microbes: Making valuable chemicals from waste gases11
Extending dynamic and operational range of the biosensor responding to l-carnitine by directed evolution11
ECMpy 2.0: A Python package for automated construction and analysis of enzyme-constrained models10
Development of a green Komagataella phaffii cell factory for sustainable production of plant-derived sesquiterpene (–)-α-bisabolol10
A combined strategy for the overproduction of complex ergot alkaloid agroclavine10
Identification, characterization, and application of an NADPH-dependent carbonyl reductase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae AS2.346 for improving production of (13R,17S)-ethyl secol10
Microbial synthesis of bacitracin: Recent progress, challenges, and prospects10
New dual functional CYP450 gene involves in isoflavone biosynthesis in Glycine max L.10
Exploration and mutagenesis of the germacrene A synthase from Solidago canadensis to enhance germacrene A production in E. coli10
A flexible, modular and versatile functional part assembly toolkit for gene cluster engineering in Streptomyces10
CRISPRi-mediated multigene downregulating redirects the metabolic flux to spinosad biosynthesis in Saccharopolyspora spinosa10
Coordinated regulation of two LacI family regulators, GvmR and GvmR2, on guvermectin production in Streptomyces caniferus10
A statistical approach to enhance the productivity of Streptomyces baarensis MH-133 for bioactive compounds10
Identification of neutral genome integration sites with high expression and high integration efficiency in Fusarium venenatum TB0110
A novel CRISPR/Cas9 system with high genomic editing efficiency and recyclable auxotrophic selective marker for multiple-step metabolic rewriting in Pichia pastoris10
Programming anti-ribozymes to sense trigger RNAs for modulating gene expression in mammalian cells9
Construction and application of high-quality genome-scale metabolic model of Zymomonas mobilis to guide rational design of microbial cell factories9
Deacetoxycephalosporin C synthase (expandase): Research progress and application potential9
Sequence and taxonomic feature evaluation facilitated the discovery of alcohol oxidases9
Biotransformation of ethylene glycol by engineered Escherichia coli9
Transcriptome-guided identification of a four-component system, SbrH1-R, that modulates milbemycin biosynthesis by influencing gene cluster expression, precursor supply, and antibiotic efflux9
Translocation of subunit PPSE in plipastatin synthase and synthesis of novel lipopeptides9
Developing safe and efficient CGBE editor based on Cas-embedding strategy9
Advances in the biosynthesis of tetraacetyl phytosphingosine, a key substrate of ceramides9
Development of ultrasound-visualized tumor-targeting engineered bacteria for precise tumor therapy9
Cyanamide-inducible expression of homing nuclease I−SceI for selectable marker removal and promoter characterisation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae8
CRISPR/Cas9-based iterative multi-copy integration for improved metabolite yields in Saccharomyces cerevisiae8
Engineered probiotic-mediated intratumoral delivery and controlled release of bacterial collagenase for cancer therapy8
Efficient production of astaxanthin in Yarrowia lipolytica through metabolic and enzyme engineering8
Filamentous morphology engineering of bacteria by iron metabolism modulation through MagR expression8
Rapid detection of genotoxicity employing an engineered high-sensitivity and tight SOS-response biosensor in Escherichia coli MG16558
The forced activation of asexual conidiation in Aspergillus niger simplifies bioproduction8
Screening of ent-copalyl diphosphate synthase and metabolic engineering to achieve de novo biosynthesis of ent-copalol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae8
Advances in stress-tolerance elements for microbial cell factories8
Enhanced triacylglycerol metabolism contributes to the efficient biosynthesis of spinosad in Saccharopolyspora spinosa8
Enhancing abscisic acid production in Botrytis cinerea through metabolic engineering based on a constitutive promoter library8
Engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum for the efficient production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid from glucose via the β-alanine pathway8
Engineering transcriptional regulatory networks for improving second-generation fuel ethanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae7
Corrigendum to “Improving cooperativity of transcription activators by oligomerization domains in mammalian cells” [Synth Syst Biotechnol 8 (1) (2023) 114–120]7
Outside Front Cover7
Identification of a novel multifunctional oxidosqualene cyclase from Zea mays sheds light on the biosynthetic pathway of three pentacyclic triterpenoids7
Advances in engineered Bacillus subtilis biofilms and spores, and their applications in bioremediation, biocatalysis, and biomaterials7
Improving the biotransformation efficiency of soybean phytosterols in Mycolicibacterium neoaurum by the combined deletion of fbpC3 and embC in cell envelope synthesis7
Regulatory RNAs in Bacillus subtilis: A review on regulatory mechanism and applications in synthetic biology7
Modular engineering of E. coli coculture for efficient production of resveratrol from glucose and arabinose mixture7
Thank you Reviewers list7
Improving pathway prediction accuracy of constraints-based metabolic network models by treating enzymes as microcompartments7
Enhancing substrate specificity of microbial transglutaminase for precise nanobody labeling7
Regulatory mechanisms of dopamine metabolism in a marine Meyerozyma guilliermondii GXDK6 under NaCl stress as revealed by integrative multi-omics analysis7
Minimizing endogenous cryptic plasmids to construct antibiotic-free expression systems for Escherichia coli Nissle 19177
A new paradigm for the regulation of A40926B0 biosynthesis7
Two novel aliphatic unsaturated alcohols isolated from a pathogenic fungus Fusarium proliferatum7
High-efficiency patatin expression strategies in Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris): Expression cassette toolbox and regulation of protein secretion7
Multi-modular metabolic engineering of heme synthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum6
Efficient fatty acid synthesis from methanol in methylotrophic yeast6
Facilitating stable gene integration expression and copy number amplification in Bacillus subtilis through a reversible homologous recombination switch6
A two-stage metabolome refining pipeline for natural products discovery6
Construction of an engineered Escherichia coli for effective synthesis of 2′-fucosyllactose via the salvage pathway6
Construction of microbial chassis for terpenoid discovery6
Artificial multi-enzyme cascades and whole-cell transformation for bioconversion of C1 compounds: Advances, challenge and perspectives6
Optimization of microbial cell factories for astaxanthin production: Biosynthesis and regulations, engineering strategies and fermentation optimization strategies6
Rational construction of genome-minimized Streptomyces host for the expression of secondary metabolite gene clusters6
Analyzing and engineering of the biosynthetic pathway of mollemycin A for enhancing its production6
Multiscale engineering of microbial cell factories: A step forward towards sustainable natural products industry6
Sequence and thermodynamic characteristics of terminators revealed by FlowSeq and the discrimination of terminators strength6
Integrative analysis of transcriptome and metabolome reveals the effect of DNA methylation of chalcone isomerase gene in promoter region on Lithocarpus polystachyus Rehd flavonoids6
CRISPR-Cas9-based one-step multiplexed genome editing through optimizing guide RNA processing strategies in Pichia pastoris6
Overexpression of arginase gene CAR1 renders yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae acetic acid tolerance6
Enhanced chlorogenic acid production from glucose via systematic metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae6
A FAIR-compliant parts catalogue for genome engineering and expression control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae6
Study on RNAi-based herbicide for Mikania micrantha6
Systems metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for efficient l-tryptophan production6
Acarbose glycosylation by AcbE for the production of acarstatins with enhanced α-amylase inhibitory activity6
System-level characterization of engineered and evolved formatotrophic E. coli strains6
Altered gut bacterial and metabolic signatures and their interaction in inflammatory bowel disease6
Biomanufacturing of γ-linolenic acid-enriched galactosyldiacylglycerols: Challenges in microalgae and potential in oleaginous yeasts6
Biosensor-assisted CRISPRi high-throughput screening to identify genetic targets in Zymomonas mobilis for high d-lactate production6
Nitric oxide synthase-guided genome mining identifies a cytochrome P450 enzyme for olefin nitration in bacterial specialized metabolism6
Alleviating glucose repression and enhancing respiratory capacity to increase itaconic acid production6
End-to-end computational approach to the design of RNA biosensors for detecting miRNA biomarkers of cervical cancer6
Constructing an artificial short route for cell-free biosynthesis of the phenethylisoquinoline scaffold6
Biosynthesis of Lacto-N-biose I from starch and N-acetylglucosamine via an in vitro synthetic enzymatic biosystem5
Combined metabolic and enzymatic engineering for de novo biosynthesis of δ-tocotrienol in Yarrowia lipolytica5
Design and mathematical analysis of activating transcriptional amplifiers that enable modular temporal control in synthetic juxtacrine circuits5
Biosynthesis of trialkyl-substituted aromatic polyketide NFAT-133 involves unusual P450 monooxygenase-mediating aromatization and a putative metallo-beta-lactamase fold hydrolase5
Deletion of COM donor and acceptor domains and the interaction between modules in bacillomycin D produced by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens5
Harnessing synthetic biology for astaxanthin production: Recent advances and challenges5
Enhancement of polymyxin B1 production by an artificial microbial consortium of Paenibacillus polymyxa and recombinant Corynebacterium glutamicum producing precursor amino acids5
iCASRED, a scarless DNA editing tool in E. coli for high-efficiency engineering of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters5
Polyhydroxyalkanoate production during electroactive biofilm formation and stabilization in wetland microbial fuel cells for petroleum hydrocarbon bioconversion5
Network of nicotinamide mononucleotide biosynthesis: substrate tracking, rate-limiting enzyme, and regulatory strategy5
Identification of (-)-bornyl diphosphate synthase from Blumea balsamifera and its application for (-)-borneol biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae5
Modulating ion channels with nanobodies5
High-level production of free fatty acids from lignocellulose hydrolysate by co-utilizing glucose and xylose in yeast5
Discovering the next decade's synthetic biology research trends with ChatGPT5
Recent progress in engineering Clostridium autoethanogenum to synthesize the biochemicals and biocommodities5
A CRISPR/Cas9-based single-stranded DNA recombineering system for genome editing of Rhodococcus opacus PD6305
Current state and future perspectives of cytochrome P450 enzymes for C–H and C=C oxygenation5
Expanding catalytic promiscuity of a bifunctional terpene synthase through a single mutation-induced change in hydrogen-bond network within the catalytic pocket5
T7 RNA polymerase-guided base editor for accelerated continuous evolution in Bacillus subtilis5
Editorial for “Biointelligent manufacturing in Memorium of Arnold (Arny) L. Demain”4
Thank you Reviewers4
Stepwise increase of fidaxomicin in an engineered heterologous host Streptomyces albus through multi-level metabolic engineering4
Efficient biosynthesis of creatine by whole-cell catalysis from guanidinoacetic acid in Corynebacterium glutamicum4
Efficient production of hydroxysalidroside in Escherichia coli via enhanced glycosylation and semi-rational design of UGT85A14
Outside Front Cover4
Gene knockdown by structure defined single-stem loop small non-coding RNAs with programmable regulatory activities4
Engineering artificial cross-species promoters with different transcriptional strengths4
Engineering the cytochrome P450 to enhance parthenolide production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae4
Mechanisms and biotechnological applications of transcription factors4
Design and engineering of logic genetic-enzymatic gates based on the activity of the human CYP2C9 enzyme in permeabilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells4
Efficient stereoselective hydroxylation of deoxycholic acid by the robust whole-cell cytochrome P450 CYP107D1 biocatalyst4
Biodegradation of combined pollutants of polyethylene terephthalate and phthalate esters by esterase-integrated Pseudomonas sp. JY-Q with surface-co-displayed PETase and MHETase4
Engineered microorganisms: A new direction in kidney stone prevention and treatment4
Origin and evolution of the main starch biosynthetic enzymes4
The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications4
Fragment antigen binding domains (Fabs) as tools to study assembly-line polyketide synthases4
Improving solubility and copy number of taxadiene synthase to enhance the titer of taxadiene in Yarrowia lipolytica4
Improving cooperativity of transcription activators by oligomerization domains in mammalian cells4
Efficient secretory expression of phospholipase D for the high-yield production of phosphatidylserine and phospholipid derivates from soybean lecithin4
Bioengineering bacterial encapsulin nanocompartments as targeted drug delivery system4
finDr: A web server for in silico D-peptide ligand identification4
Corrigendum to “Aptamer-based cell-free detection system to detect target protein” [Synth Syst Biotechnol 6 (3) (2021) 209–215]4
Advance of tolerance engineering on microbes for industrial production4
Reconstruction and metabolic profiling of the genome-scale metabolic network model of Pseudomonas stutzeri A15014
Antibacterial activity and mechanism of X33 antimicrobial oligopeptide against Acinetobacter baumannii4
H-NS family protein MvaU downregulates phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA) biosynthesis via binding to an AT-rich region within the promoter of the phz2 gene cluster in the rhizobacterium Pseudomonas st4
dTSR enables efficient improvement of heterologous production of spinosad in Saccharopolyspora erythraea4
Enhancing levan biosynthesis by destroying the strongly acidic environment caused by membrane-bound glucose dehydrogenase (mGDH) in Gluconobacter sp. MP21164
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