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 …

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 …

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 …

Exploring native genetic elements as plug-in tools for synthetic biology in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

D Liu, HB Pakrasi - Microbial cell factories, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background The unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 has
been widely used as a photoautotrophic host for synthetic biology studies. However, as a …

SEVA-Cpf1, a CRISPR-Cas12a vector for genome editing in cyanobacteria

S Baldanta, G Guevara, JM Navarro-Llorens - Microbial cell factories, 2022 - Springer
Background Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic autotrophs that have tremendous potential
for fundamental research and industrial applications due to their high metabolic plasticity …

mRNA localization and thylakoid protein biogenesis in the filamentous heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

K Wang, M Mahbub, G Mastroianni… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria such as Anabaena (Nostoc) sp. PCC 7120 exhibit
extensive remodeling of their thylakoid membranes during heterocyst differentiation. Here …

Generation of synthetic shuttle vectors enabling modular genetic engineering of cyanobacteria

F Opel, NA Siebert, S Klatt, A Tüllinghoff… - ACS synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cyanobacteria have raised great interest in biotechnology due to their potential for a
sustainable, photosynthesis-driven production of fuels and value-added chemicals. This has …

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 …

Light and carbon: Synthetic biology toward new cyanobacteria-based living biomaterials

IM Goodchild-Michelman, GM Church, MG Schubert… - Materials Today Bio, 2023 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are ideal candidates to use in developing carbon neutral and carbon
negative technologies; they are efficient photosynthesizers and amenable to genetic …