Recent advancements in the genetic engineering of microalgae

AE Sproles, FJ Fields, TN Smalley, CH Le, A Badary… - Algal Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of more sustainable food, feed, and bio-products is critical to mitigating the
environmental stresses facing our world today. Algae, which includes seaweeds, eukaryotic …

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 …

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 …

Toolboxes for cyanobacteria: recent advances and future direction

T Sun, S Li, X Song, J Diao, L Chen, W Zhang - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are important primary producers and model organisms for
studying photosynthesis and elements cycling on earth. Due to the ability to absorb sunlight …

Interactors and effects of overexpressing YlxR/RnpM, a conserved RNA binding protein in cyanobacteria

L Hemm, A Miucci, A Kraus, M Riediger, S Tholen… - RNA biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Throughout the tree of life RNA-binding proteins play important roles, but they are poorly
characterized in cyanobacteria. Overexpression of the predicted RNA-binding protein …

Progress and challenges in engineering cyanobacteria as chassis for light‐driven biotechnology

A Hitchcock, CN Hunter, DP Canniffe - Microbial biotechnology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic phototrophs that, in addition to being excellent model
organisms for studying photosynthesis, have tremendous potential for light‐driven synthetic …

Doing synthetic biology with photosynthetic microorganisms

K Vavitsas, A Kugler, A Satta… - Physiologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of photosynthetic microbes as synthetic biology hosts for the sustainable production
of commodity chemicals and even fuels has received increasing attention over the last …

Current metabolic engineering strategies for photosynthetic bioproduction in cyanobacteria

A Satta, L Esquirol, BE Ebert - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms capable of using solar energy to convert
CO2 and H2O into O2 and energy-rich organic compounds, thus enabling sustainable …

Comparative dose–response analysis of inducible promoters in cyanobacteria

A Behle, P Saake, AT Germann, D Dienst… - ACS Synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Design and implementation of synthetic biological circuits highly depends on well-
characterized, robust promoters with predictable input–output responses. While great …

Synthetic biology toolkits for metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria

PF **a, H Ling, JL Foo, MW Chang - Biotechnology journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria are of great importance to Earth's ecology. Due to their capability in
photosynthesis and C1 metabolism, they are ideal microbial chassis that can be engineered …