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Arren Bar-Even

Arren Bar-Even

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
15820
World Ranking
14208
National Ranking
1002

Overview

Arren Bar-Even was affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and focused on research within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. They contributed extensively to the subfields of Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Biochemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's research centered primarily on microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction. Other significant topics in their work included enzyme structure and function, enzyme catalysis and immobilization, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, gene regulatory network analysis, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Some of the key publications associated with their research were:

  • "Growth of E. coli on formate and methanol via the reductive glycine pathway," 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
  • "The reductive glycine pathway allows autotrophic growth of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "A new-to-nature carboxylation module to improve natural and synthetic CO2 fixation," 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • "Replacing the Calvin cycle with the reductive glycine pathway in Cupriavidus necator," 2020, Metabolic Engineering
  • "Photovoltaic-driven microbial protein production can use land and sunlight more efficiently than conventional crops," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist frequently published in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Metabolic Engineering
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • eLife

Collaborations formed an important part of their work. Frequent co-authors included Steffen N. Lindner, Tobias J. Erb, Hai He, Εlad Noor, and Helena Schulz-Mirbach.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide midrange transcription profiles reveal expression level relationships in human tissue specification

    Itai Yanai;Hila Benjamin;Michael Shmoish;Vered Chalifa-Caspi

  • The Moderately Efficient Enzyme: Evolutionary and Physicochemical Trends Shaping Enzyme Parameters

    Arren Bar-Even;Elad Noor;Yonatan Savir;Wolfram Liebermeister

  • Noise in protein expression scales with natural protein abundance.

    Arren Bar-Even;Johan Paulsson;Johan Paulsson;Narendra Maheshri;Miri Carmi

  • eQuilibrator—the biochemical thermodynamics calculator

    Avi I. Flamholz;Elad Noor;Arren Bar-Even;Ron Milo

  • Glycolytic strategy as a tradeoff between energy yield and protein cost

    Avi Flamholz;Elad Noor;Arren Bar-Even;Wolfram Liebermeister;Wolfram Liebermeister

  • Design and analysis of synthetic carbon fixation pathways.

    Arren Bar-Even;Elad Noor;Nathan E. Lewis;Nathan E. Lewis;Ron Milo

  • Conversion of Escherichia coli to Generate All Biomass Carbon from CO2.

    Shmuel Gleizer;Roee Ben-Nissan;Yinon M. Bar-On;Niv Antonovsky

  • Computational protein design enables a novel one-carbon assimilation pathway

    Justin B. Siegel;Amanda Lee Smith;Sean Poust;Adam J. Wargacki

  • Sugar Synthesis from CO2 in Escherichia coli

    Niv Antonovsky;Shmuel Gleizer;Elad Noor;Yehudit Zohar

  • Pathway thermodynamics highlights kinetic obstacles in central metabolism

    Elad Noor;Arren Bar-Even;Avi I. Flamholz;Ed Reznik

  • Growth of E. coli on formate and methanol via the reductive glycine pathway.

    Seohyoung Kim;Steffen N. Lindner;Selçuk Aslan;Oren Yishai

  • Rethinking glycolysis: on the biochemical logic of metabolic pathways

    Arren Bar-Even;Avi Flamholz;Elad Noor;Ron Milo

  • A survey of carbon fixation pathways through a quantitative lens

    Arren Bar-Even;Elad Noor;Ron Milo

  • The formate bio-economy.

    Oren Yishai;Steffen N Lindner;Jorge Gonzalez de la Cruz;Hezi Tenenboim

  • Global characterization of in vivo enzyme catalytic rates and their correspondence to in vitro kcat measurements.

    Dan Davidi;Elad Noor;Wolfram Liebermeister;Arren Bar-Even

  • Renewable methanol and formate as microbial feedstocks

    Charles A.R. Cotton;Nico J. Claassens;Sara Benito-Vaquerizo;Arren Bar-Even

  • Transcription control reprogramming in genetic backup circuits.

    Ran Kafri;Arren Bar-Even;Yitzhak Pilpel

  • Making quantitative sense of electromicrobial production

    Nico J. Claassens;Charles A. R. Cotton;Dennis Kopljar;Arren Bar-Even

  • Synthetic metabolism: metabolic engineering meets enzyme design.

    Tobias J Erb;Patrik R Jones;Arren Bar-Even

  • Spanning high-dimensional expression space using ribosome-binding site combinatorics

    Lior Zelcbuch;Niv Antonovsky;Arren Bar-Even;Ayelet Levin-Karp

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Milo
Ron Milo Weizmann Institute of Science
Dan S. Tawfik
Dan S. Tawfik Weizmann Institute of Science
Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science
Zoran Nikoloski
Zoran Nikoloski Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Takayuki Tohge
Takayuki Tohge Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Andrew D. Hanson
Andrew D. Hanson University of Florida
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Alán Aspuru-Guzik University of Toronto
Mark Stitt
Mark Stitt Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Jay D. Keasling
Jay D. Keasling University of California, Berkeley
Yitzhak Pilpel
Yitzhak Pilpel Weizmann Institute of Science

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