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Title: High-Throughput Functional Genomics for Energy Production

Abstract

Functional genomics remains a foundational field for establishing genotype-phenotype relationships that enable strain engineering. High-throughput (HTP) methods accelerate the Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle that currently drives synthetic biology towards a forward engineering future. Trackable mutagenesis techniques including transposon insertion sequencing and CRISPR-Cas-mediated genome editing allow for rapid fitness profiling of a collection, or library, of mutants to discover beneficial mutations. Due to the relative speed of these experiments compared to adaptive evolution experiments, iterative rounds of mutagenesis can be implemented for next-generation metabolic engineering efforts to design complex production and tolerance phenotypes. Further, the expansion of these mutagenesis techniques to novel bacteria are opening up industrial microbes that show promise for establishing a bio-based economy.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  2. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1721731
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1811078
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-2700-77739
Journal ID: ISSN 0958-1669; MainId:30654;UUID:388cbc9c-c72d-475e-aefe-91faf80572c7;MainAdminID:18583
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 67; Journal ID: ISSN 0958-1669
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; high-throughput; genomic methods; microbial systems

Citation Formats

Fenster, Jacob A., and Eckert, Carrie A. High-Throughput Functional Genomics for Energy Production. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2020.09.010.
Fenster, Jacob A., & Eckert, Carrie A. High-Throughput Functional Genomics for Energy Production. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2020.09.010
Fenster, Jacob A., and Eckert, Carrie A. Mon . "High-Throughput Functional Genomics for Energy Production". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2020.09.010. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1721731.
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