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Microbial production of vitamin B12: a review and future perspectives

Overview of attention for article published in Microbial Cell Factories, January 2017
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
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64 X users
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Title
Microbial production of vitamin B12: a review and future perspectives
Published in
Microbial Cell Factories, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12934-017-0631-y
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Authors

Huan Fang, Jie Kang, Dawei Zhang

Abstract

Vitamin B12 is an essential vitamin that is widely used in medical and food industries. Vitamin B12 biosynthesis is confined to few bacteria and archaea, and as such its production relies on microbial fermentation. Rational strain engineering is dependent on efficient genetic tools and a detailed knowledge of metabolic pathways, regulation of which can be applied to improve product yield. Recent advances in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering have been used to efficiently construct many microbial chemical factories. Many published reviews have probed the vitamin B12 biosynthetic pathway. To maximize the potential of microbes for vitamin B12 production, new strategies and tools are required. In this review, we provide a comprehensive understanding of advances in the microbial production of vitamin B12, with a particular focus on establishing a heterologous host for the vitamin B12 production, as well as on strategies and tools that have been applied to increase microbial cobalamin production. Several worthy strategies employed for other products are also included.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 934 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 178 19%
Student > Master 126 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 122 13%
Researcher 89 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 33 4%
Other 105 11%
Unknown 284 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 218 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 156 17%
Chemistry 45 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 35 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 28 3%
Other 143 15%
Unknown 312 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 87. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 March 2024.
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#497,029
of 25,753,578 outputs
Outputs from Microbial Cell Factories
#12
of 1,845 outputs
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#10,720
of 426,365 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Microbial Cell Factories
#1
of 35 outputs
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