Cyanobacteria as cell factories for the photosynthetic production of sucrose

M Santos-Merino, L Yun, DC Ducat - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Biofuels and other biologically manufactured sustainable goods are growing in popularity
and demand. Carbohydrate feedstocks required for industrial fermentation processes have …

Fast-growing cyanobacterial chassis for synthetic biology application

Z Li, S Li, L Chen, T Sun, W Zhang - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Carbon neutrality by 2050 has become one of the most urgent challenges the world faces
today. To address the issue, it is necessary to develop and promote new technologies …

Phenotypically complex living materials containing engineered cyanobacteria

D Datta, EL Weiss, D Wangpraseurt, E Hild… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The field of engineered living materials lies at the intersection of materials science and
synthetic biology with the aim of develo** materials that can sense and respond to the …

Synechococcus elongatus Argonaute reduces natural transformation efficiency and provides immunity against exogenous plasmids

A Taton, TS Gilderman, DC Ernst, CA Omaga… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 produces an active prokaryotic
Argonaute nuclease, SeAgo, whose function is unknown. Here, we show that SeAgo …

Cyanobacteria newly isolated from marine volcanic seeps display rapid sinking and robust, high-density growth

MG Schubert, TC Tang… - Applied and …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic organisms that play important roles in carbon cycling and
are promising bioproduction chassis. Here, we isolate two novel cyanobacteria with 4.6 Mbp …

Cyanotoxins and other bioactive compounds from the pasteur cultures of cyanobacteria (PCC)

M Gugger, A Boullié, T Laurent - Toxins, 2023 - mdpi.com
In tribute to the bicentenary of the birth of Louis Pasteur, this report focuses on cyanotoxins,
other natural products and bioactive compounds of cyanobacteria, a phylum of Gram …

[HTML][HTML] Cell surface composition, released polysaccharides, and ionic strength mediate fast sedimentation in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC …

JAZ Zedler, M Michel, G Pohnert… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes of high ecological and biotechnological
relevance that have been cultivated in laboratories around the world for more than 70 years …

Clocking out and letting go to unleash green biotech applications in a photosynthetic host

Y Xu, ML Jabbur, T Mori, JD Young… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic bacteria whose gene expression patterns are globally
regulated by their circadian (daily) clocks. Due to their ability to use sunlight as their energy …

Impact of irradiance and inorganic carbon availability on heterologous sucrose production in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

L Yun, R Zegarac, DC Ducat - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cyanobacteria have been proposed as a potential alternative carbohydrate feedstock and
multiple species have been successfully engineered to secrete fermentable sugars. To date …

Advances in light system engineering across the phototrophic spectrum

G Dennis, MC Posewitz - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Current work in photosynthetic engineering is progressing along the lines of cyanobacterial,
microalgal, and plant research. These are interconnected through the fundamental …