The supplemental file contains a list of publications used to conduct a systematic literature review for the thesis titled “A Systematic Method for Enhanced Expression of Alcohol Dehydrogenases in Escherichia coli”. Publications for this review were sourced from NCBI PubMed and WoS databases, in addition to Google Scholar. Relevant articles published between 1 January 2010 and 13 April 2022 were selected. Search terms included those for Escherichia coli (including the terms ‘Escherichia coli’ and ‘E. coli’), ‘recombinant’, ‘enzyme’, and ‘inclusion bodies’, generated a total of 791 results in PubMed, 232 results in WoS and 40.1 K search results in Google Scholar. These papers were manually curated within the search results for PubMed and WoS. Logical operators were used to remove irrelevant search results from the large number of results returned in Google Scholar specifically leaving 780 results. The literature search for this review was limited to those studies that explicitly reported: (i) the native prokaryotic source of the enzyme of interest, (ii) gene sequence and/or identifier, (iii) the E. coli expression strain, (iv) the expression vector backbone, and (v) expression conditions (i.e. expression temperature, inducer concentration, cell density). In total 139 publications that expressed 146 enzymes were selected between 2010 and 2022; some publications highlighted multiple enzymes leading to a higher number of enzymes compared to publications.