OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbial Cell Factories is 38. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Polar mutagenesis of polycistronic bacterial transcriptional units using Cas12a	133
Identification of a polyphenol O-methyltransferase with broad substrate flexibility in Streptomyces albidoflavus J1074	124
Screening of Red Sea- and Mediterranean Sea-derived Actinomycetes for Antimicrobial and Antitumor activities: LC-ESI-HRMS-based Metabolomics Study	102
Human growth hormone inclusion bodies present native-like secondary and tertiary structures which can be preserved by mild solubilization for refolding	102
Genome-scale metabolic modelling enables deciphering ethanol metabolism via the acrylate pathway in the propionate-producer Anaerotignum neopropionicum	100
The nutritional composition and cell size of microbial biomass for food applications are defined by the growth conditions	88
Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for enhanced taxadiene production	87
Bioproduction and optimization of newly characterized melanin pigment from Streptomyces djakartensis NSS-3 with its anticancer, antimicrobial, and radioprotective properties	86
Lead remediation by geological fluorapatite combined with Penicillium Oxalicum and Red yeast	77
Non-targeted metabolomic profile of Leuconostoc mesenteroides-fermented milk reveals differentially expressed metabolites associated with electro-fermentation	76
PRMT5 promotes cellulase production by regulating the expression of cellulase gene eg2 through histone methylation in Ganoderma lucidum	74
Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) from G. stearothermophilus GF16: stable and versatile nanomaterials with antioxidant, antimicrobial, and catalytic properties	73
Optimised stress – intensification of pyocyanin production with zinc oxide nanoparticles	67
Copper biosorption by Bacillus pumilus OQ931870 and Bacillus subtilis OQ931871 isolated from Wadi Nakheil, Red Sea, Egypt	65
Antimicrobial and antiproliferative activity of biosynthesized manganese nanocomposite with amide derivative originated by endophytic Aspergillus terreus	62
A temperature dependent pilin promoter for production of thermostable enzymes in Thermus thermophilus	57
Evaluation of the anticarcinogenic potential of the endophyte, Streptomyces sp. LRE541 isolated from Lilium davidii var. unicolor (Hoog) Cotton	55
Programming Bordetella pertussis lipid A to promote adjuvanticity	52
Biotransformation of triterpenoid ganoderic acids from exogenous diterpene dihydrotanshinone I in the cultures of Ganoderma sessile	50
Promising approaches for the assembly of the catalytically active, recombinant Desulfomicrobium baculatum hydrogenase with substitutions at the active site	50
Non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)-encoding products and their biosynthetic logics in Fusarium	48
Characterization of a pleiotropic regulator MtrA in Streptomyces avermitilis controlling avermectin production and morphological differentiation	48
Camptothecin bioprocessing from Aspergillus terreus, an endophyte of Catharanthus roseus: antiproliferative activity, topoisomerase inhibition and cell cycle analysis	48
Strategic optimization of conditions for the solubilization of GST-tagged amphipathic helix-containing ciliary proteins overexpressed as inclusion bodies in E. coli	47
Association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels with the gut microbiota and metabolites in postmenopausal women in China	47

Construction of cell factory capable of efficiently converting l-tryptophan into 5-hydroxytryptamine	47
Transforming microbial pigment into therapeutic revelation: extraction and characterization of pyocyanin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its therapeutic potential as an antibacterial and anticancer ag	43
A production platform for disulfide-bonded peptides in the periplasm of Escherichia coli	42
Research advances in the identification of regulatory mechanisms of surfactin production by Bacillus: a review	41
Fermentative aminopyrrolnitrin production by metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum	41
pTripleTREP – A vector for tightly controlled expression and purification of virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus	41
Intestinal mucosal microbiota mediate amino acid metabolism involved in the gastrointestinal adaptability to cold and humid environmental stress in mice	40
A review on microbes mediated resource recovery and bioplastic (polyhydroxyalkanoates) production from wastewater	40
In vivo and In vitro evaluation of the antifungal activity of the PGPR Bacillus amyloliquefaciens RaSh1 (MZ945930) against Alternaria alternata with growth promotion influences on Capsicum annuum L. p	40
Citrate synthase variants improve yield of acetyl-CoA derived 3-hydroxybutyrate in Escherichia coli	39
Engineering the secretome of Aspergillus niger for cellooligosaccharides production from plant biomass	39
An accurate strategy for pointing the key biocatalytic sites of bre2691A protein for modification of the brevilaterin from Brevibacillus laterosporus	39
AozC, a zn(II)2Cys6 transcription factor, negatively regulates salt tolerance in Aspergillus oryzae by controlling fatty acid biosynthesis	38
Retraction Note: Isolation, expression, and in silico profiling of a thermostable xylanase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus strain NASA267: insights into structural features and agro-waste valoriza	38