OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbial Cell Factories is 34. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Polar mutagenesis of polycistronic bacterial transcriptional units using Cas12a	115
Evaluation of the anticarcinogenic potential of the endophyte, Streptomyces sp. LRE541 isolated from Lilium davidii var. unicolor (Hoog) Cotton	105
Citrate synthase variants improve yield of acetyl-CoA derived 3-hydroxybutyrate in Escherichia coli	86
Identification of a polyphenol O-methyltransferase with broad substrate flexibility in Streptomyces albidoflavus J1074	81
Screening of Red Sea- and Mediterranean Sea-derived Actinomycetes for Antimicrobial and Antitumor activities: LC-ESI-HRMS-based Metabolomics Study	80
Antimicrobial and antiproliferative activity of biosynthesized manganese nanocomposite with amide derivative originated by endophytic Aspergillus terreus	80
Copper biosorption by Bacillus pumilus OQ931870 and Bacillus subtilis OQ931871 isolated from Wadi Nakheil, Red Sea, Egypt	74
Construction of cell factory capable of efficiently converting l-tryptophan into 5-hydroxytryptamine	73
A production platform for disulfide-bonded peptides in the periplasm of Escherichia coli	66
Characterization of a pleiotropic regulator MtrA in Streptomyces avermitilis controlling avermectin production and morphological differentiation	64
Biotransformation of triterpenoid ganoderic acids from exogenous diterpene dihydrotanshinone I in the cultures of Ganoderma sessile	59
Non-targeted metabolomic profile of Leuconostoc mesenteroides-fermented milk reveals differentially expressed metabolites associated with electro-fermentation	59
Programming Bordetella pertussis lipid A to promote adjuvanticity	57
A temperature dependent pilin promoter for production of thermostable enzymes in Thermus thermophilus	56
Optimised stress – intensification of pyocyanin production with zinc oxide nanoparticles	54
Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for enhanced taxadiene production	51
Human growth hormone inclusion bodies present native-like secondary and tertiary structures which can be preserved by mild solubilization for refolding	50
Intestinal mucosal microbiota mediate amino acid metabolism involved in the gastrointestinal adaptability to cold and humid environmental stress in mice	48
A review on microbes mediated resource recovery and bioplastic (polyhydroxyalkanoates) production from wastewater	48
Fermentative aminopyrrolnitrin production by metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum	45
Transforming microbial pigment into therapeutic revelation: extraction and characterization of pyocyanin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its therapeutic potential as an antibacterial and anticancer ag	44
Promising approaches for the assembly of the catalytically active, recombinant Desulfomicrobium baculatum hydrogenase with substitutions at the active site	41
Lead remediation by geological fluorapatite combined with Penicillium Oxalicum and Red yeast	41
pTripleTREP – A vector for tightly controlled expression and purification of virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus	40
Association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels with the gut microbiota and metabolites in postmenopausal women in China	40

Bioproduction and optimization of newly characterized melanin pigment from Streptomyces djakartensis NSS-3 with its anticancer, antimicrobial, and radioprotective properties	40
Research advances in the identification of regulatory mechanisms of surfactin production by Bacillus: a review	39
Strategic optimization of conditions for the solubilization of GST-tagged amphipathic helix-containing ciliary proteins overexpressed as inclusion bodies in E. coli	38
Camptothecin bioprocessing from Aspergillus terreus, an endophyte of Catharanthus roseus: antiproliferative activity, topoisomerase inhibition and cell cycle analysis	38
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	37
The nutritional composition and cell size of microbial biomass for food applications are defined by the growth conditions	37
Genome-scale metabolic modelling enables deciphering ethanol metabolism via the acrylate pathway in the propionate-producer Anaerotignum neopropionicum	37
An accurate strategy for pointing the key biocatalytic sites of bre2691A protein for modification of the brevilaterin from Brevibacillus laterosporus	36
Non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)-encoding products and their biosynthetic logics in Fusarium	36
Biosynthesis of a clickable pyoverdine via in vivo enzyme engineering of an adenylation domain	34
Optimization of biotransformation processes of Camarosporium laburnicola to improve production yields of potent telomerase activators	34
Itaconate Production from Crude Substrates with U. maydis: Scale-up of an Industrially Relevant Bioprocess	34
Efficient D-allulose synthesis under acidic conditions by auto-inducing expression of the tandem D-allulose 3-epimerase genes in Bacillus subtilis	34