Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology strategies for producing high-value natural pigments in Microalgae

K Cao, Y Cui, F Sun, H Zhang, J Fan, B Ge, Y Cao… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microalgae are microorganisms capable of producing bioactive compounds using
photosynthesis. Microalgae contain a variety of high value-added natural pigments such as …

[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacteria and microalgae in supporting human habitation on Mars

LJ Mapstone, MN Leite, S Purton, IA Crawford… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Establishing the first human presence on Mars will be the most technically challenging
undertaking yet in the exploration beyond our planet. The remoteness of Mars from Earth …

Genomic and proteomic insights into the heavy metal bioremediation by cyanobacteria

H Chakdar, S Thapa, A Srivastava, P Shukla - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metals (HMs) pose a global ecological threat due to their toxic effects on aquatic and
terrestrial life. Effective remediation of HMs from the environment can help to restore soil's …

New applications of synthetic biology tools for cyanobacterial metabolic engineering

M Santos-Merino, AK Singh, DC Ducat - Frontiers in bioengineering …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cyanobacteria are promising microorganisms for sustainable biotechnologies, yet unlocking
their potential requires radical re-engineering and application of cutting-edge synthetic …

Carbon-negative synthetic biology: challenges and emerging trends of cyanobacterial technology

C Tan, P Xu, F Tao - Trends in biotechnology, 2022 - cell.com
Global warming and climate instability have spurred interest in using renewable carbon
resources for the sustainable production of chemicals. Cyanobacteria are ideal cellular …

CyanoGate: a modular cloning suite for engineering cyanobacteria based on the plant MoClo syntax

R Vasudevan, GAR Gale, AA Schiavon… - Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in synthetic biology research have been underpinned by an exponential
increase in available genomic information and a proliferation of advanced DNA assembly …

Synthetic genetic circuits for programmable biological functionalities

PF **a, H Ling, JL Foo, MW Chang - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Living organisms evolve complex genetic networks to interact with the environment. Due to
the rapid development of synthetic biology, various modularized genetic parts and units …

A critical review of genome editing and synthetic biology applications in metabolic engineering of microalgae and cyanobacteria

IS Ng, BB Keskin, SI Tan - Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Being the green gold of the future, microalgae and cyanobacteria have recently attracted
considerable interest worldwide, for their metabolites such as lipids, protein, pigments, and …

Challenges and opportunities in C1-based biomanufacturing

W Qiao, S Xu, Z Liu, X Fu, H Zhao, S Shi - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The intensifying impact of green-house gas (GHG) emission on environment and climate
change has attracted increasing attention, and biorefinery represents one of the most …

Deciphering and engineering photosynthetic cyanobacteria for heavy metal bioremediation

J Cui, Y **e, T Sun, L Chen, W Zhang - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution caused by heavy metals has received worldwide attentions due to
their ubiquity, poor degradability and easy bioaccumulation in host cells. As one potential …