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Safe and resource-aware microbial design for food production
Juyoung Oh1, José I Jiménez2, Juhyun Kim1
1School of Life Sciences, BK21 FOUR KNU Creative BioResearch Group, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
|June 9, 2026
Summary
Precision fermentation advances microbial food production. Novel cell-free and minicell systems enhance safety and efficiency, overcoming limitations for industrial food manufacturing.
Area of Science:
- Biotechnology
- Food Science
- Synthetic Biology
Background:
- Precision fermentation enables programmable biosynthesis of food ingredients.
- Industrial scale-up faces challenges like metabolic burden, biosafety, and downstream processing costs.
- Current intracellular systems produce host-derived impurities, hindering food-grade applications.
Purpose of the Study:
- Review platform-level advances in microbial food manufacturing.
- Focus on innovations addressing industrial constraints and food industry requirements.
- Highlight safe-by-design frameworks for next-generation food systems.
Main Methods:
- Cell-free systems and non-replicative minicells as contained production chassis.
- Secretion and efflux engineering for extracellular product recovery.
- Division-of-labor microbial consortia for resource allocation.
Main Results:
- Decoupling biosynthesis from cellular constraints improves process design.
- Intrinsically contained systems enhance biosafety and meet food-grade standards.
- Streamlined processes increase efficiency for industrial food manufacturing.
Conclusions:
- These innovations integrate biosafety and process efficiency.
- A safe-by-design framework is established for advanced microbial food systems.
- Next-generation food systems meet regulatory and industrial needs.
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