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 …

Photosynthetic hydrogen production: Novel protocols, promising engineering approaches and application of semi‐synthetic hydrogenases

S Kosourov, M Böhm, M Senger… - Physiologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthetic production of molecular hydrogen (H2) by cyanobacteria and green algae is
a potential source of renewable energy. These organisms are capable of water …

Proteomics of cyanobacteria: current horizons

N Battchikova, D Muth-Pawlak, EM Aro - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Application of proteomics has made a profound impact on the cyanobacterial research. It
has not only provided a global identification of expressed proteins in cyanobacterial cells …

Structure, diversity, and evolution of a new family of soluble carotenoid-binding proteins in cyanobacteria

MR Melnicki, RL Leverenz, M Sutter, R López-Igual… - Molecular plant, 2016 - cell.com
Using a phylogenomic approach, we have identified and subclassified a new family of
carotenoid-binding proteins. These proteins have sequence homology to the N-terminal …

A flexible microbial co-culture platform for simultaneous utilization of methane and carbon dioxide from gas feedstocks

EA Hill, WB Chrisler, AS Beliaev, HC Bernstein - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
A new co-cultivation technology is presented that converts greenhouse gasses, CH 4 and
CO 2, into microbial biomass. The methanotrophic bacterium, Methylomicrobium …

Temporal Patterns and Intra- and Inter-Cellular Variability in Carbon and Nitrogen Assimilation by the Unicellular Cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142

L Polerecky, T Masuda, M Eichner… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Unicellular nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria (UCYN) are abundant members of phytoplankton
communities in a wide range of marine environments, including those with rapidly changing …

Effect of light wavelength on hot spring microbial mat biodiversity

A Nishida, V Thiel, M Nakagawa, S Ayukawa… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Hot spring associated phototrophic microbial mats are purely microbial communities, in
which phototrophic bacteria function as primary producers and thus shape the community …

Dinitrogenase-driven photobiological hydrogen production combats oxidative stress in Cyanothece sp. strain ATCC 51142

NC Sadler, HC Bernstein, MR Melnicki… - Applied and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Photobiologically synthesized hydrogen (H2) gas is carbon neutral to produce and clean to
combust, making it an ideal biofuel. Cyanothece sp. strain ATCC 51142 is a cyanobacterium …

Indirect interspecies regulation: transcriptional and physiological responses of a cyanobacterium to heterotrophic partnership

HC Bernstein, RS McClure, V Thiel, NC Sadler… - …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The mechanisms by which microbes interact in communities remain poorly understood.
Here, we interrogated specific interactions between photoautotrophic and heterotrophic …

Marine cyanobacteria

F Partensky, WR Hess, L Garczarek - The Marine Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Although numerous bacteria dwelling in the sunlit layer of oceans can exploit solar energy,
cyanobacteria are the only ones to perform oxygenic photosynthesis and to produce organic …