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 …

[HTML][HTML] Transporter engineering in microbial cell factories: the ins, the outs, and the in-betweens

SA van der Hoek, I Borodina - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Transporter proteins are essential for substrate uptake, product export, and
intercompartmental metabolite exchange.•Transporter activity of a cell can be engineered to …

Engineering salt tolerance of photosynthetic cyanobacteria for seawater utilization

J Cui, T Sun, L Chen, W Zhang - Biotechnology Advances, 2020 - Elsevier
Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are capable of utilizing sunlight and CO 2 as sole energy and
carbon sources, respectively. With genetically modified cyanobacteria being used as a …

Metabolic engineering tools in model cyanobacteria

AL Carroll, AE Case, A Zhang, S Atsumi - Metabolic engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Developing sustainable routes for producing chemicals and fuels is one of the most
important challenges in metabolic engineering. Photoautotrophic hosts are particularly …

Synthetic biology toolkits for metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria

PF Xia, 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 …

Unlocking the mystery of lysine toxicity on Microcystis aeruginosa

W Kim, M Kim, W Park - Journal of hazardous materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Lysine toxicity on certain groups of bacterial cells has been recognized for many years, but
the detailed molecular mechanisms that drive this phenomenon have not been elucidated …

Engineering biology approaches for food and nutrient production by cyanobacteria

D Liu, M Liberton, JI Hendry… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
As photoautotrophic organisms, cyanobacteria capture and store solar energy in the form of
biomass. Cyanobacterial biomass has been an important component of diet and nutrition in …

Bioproduction process of natural products and biopharmaceuticals: Biotechnological aspects

I Süntar, S Çetinkaya, ÜS Haydaroğlu… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Decades of research have been put in place for developing sustainable routes of
bioproduction of high commercial value natural products (NPs) on the global market. In the …

Engineering photosynthetic bioprocesses for sustainable chemical production: a review

S Stephens, R Mahadevan, DG Allen - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microbial production of chemicals using renewable feedstocks such as glucose has
emerged as a green alternative to conventional chemical production processes that rely …

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 …