Natural polyamines, such as spermidine and spermine, exert strong anti-inflammatory effects, but their therapeutic benefits are limited by rapid absorption in the small intestine, resulting in low colonic availability. In this study, engineered Citrobacter freundii overexpressing ppk1 (CPP) coul...

In natural environments, photosynthetic organisms adjust their metabolism to cope with the fluctuating availability of combined nitrogen sources, a growth-limiting factor. For acclimation, the dynamic degradation/synthesis of tetrapyrrolic pigments, as well as of the amino acid arginine, is ...

Glabridin is a bioactive isoflavan predominantly produced in Glycyrrhiza species and is of significant pharmacological and industrial interest. However, its biosynthetic pathway remains incompletely resolved due to the involvement of multiple branching reactions and poorly characterized...

Chromochloris zofingiensis has been proved as a potential resource for large-scale astaxanthin production, but little information of phytohormones on growth and astaxanthin accumulation could be obtained. This study explored the impact of gibberellic acid-3 (GA3) on growth and astaxanthin generat...

Background: Diabetic foot tendon exposures are prone to infection, necrosis, and prolonged treatment cycles, not only hindering wound healing but potentially leading to amputation and life-threatening complications. Shengji ointment combined with bromelain has demonstrated preliminary efficacy i...

Tobacco is a significant industrial crop, serving as a model for plant science and a promising specie for the production of proteins and small molecules. However, system biology studies of tobacco under natural field cultivation conditions remain scarce. Here, we construct a genome-scale metabol...

Tobacco is a significant industrial crop, serving as a model for plant science and a promising specie for the production of proteins and small molecules. However, system biology studies of tobacco under natural field cultivation conditions remain scarce. Here, we construct a genome-scale metaboli...

The qualities of antibody (Ab) responses provided by B lymphocytes and their plasma cell (PC) descendants are crucial facets of responses to vaccines and microbes. Metabolic processes and products regulate aspects of B cell proliferation and differentiation into germinal center (GC) and PC states...

The emergence, organization, and persistence of cellular life are the result of the functional integration of metabolic and genetic networks. Here, we engineer phospholipid vesicles that can operate three essential functions, namely transcription-translation of a partial genome, self-replication ...