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Review
. 2021 Dec;12(1):6793-6807.
doi: 10.1080/21655979.2021.1968989.

Genetic modification for enhancing bacterial cellulose production and its applications

Reeta Rani Singhania  1 , Anil Kumar Patel  1 , Mei-Ling Tsai  2 , Chiu-Wen Chen  1 , Cheng Di Dong  1
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Review

Genetic modification for enhancing bacterial cellulose production and its applications

Reeta Rani Singhania et al. Bioengineered. 2021 Dec.

Abstract

Bacterial cellulose (BC) is higher in demand due to its excellent properties which is attributed to its purity and nano size. Komagataeibacter xylinum is a model organism where BC production has been studied in detail because of its higher cellulose production capacity. BC production mechanism shows involvement of a series of sequential reactions with enzymes for biosynthesis of cellulose. It is necessary to know the mechanism to understand the involvement of regulatory proteins which could be the probable targets for genetic modification to enhance or regulate yield of BC and to alter BC properties as well. For the industrial production of BC, controlled synthesis is desired so as to save energy, hence genetic manipulation opens up avenues for upregulating or controlling the cellulose synthesis in the bacterium by targeting genes involved in cellulose biosynthesis. In this review article genetic modification has been presented as a tool to introduce desired changes at genetic level resulting in improved yield or properties. There has been a lack of studies on genetic modification for BC production due to limited availability of information on whole genome and genetic toolkits; however, in last few years, the number of studies has been increased on this aspect as whole genome sequencing of several Komagataeibacter strains are being done. In this review article, we have presented the mechanisms and the targets for genetic modifications in order to achieve desired changes in the BC production titer as well as its characteristics.

Keywords: Bacterial cellulose; genetic engineering; komagataeibacter; nanocellulose; nanocomposite.

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Mechanism of cellulose biosynthesis in Komagataeibacter xylinus.
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Genetic modification: A general scheme in K. xylinus.
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