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 …

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 …

Enhanced succinic acid production by Mannheimia employing optimal malate dehydrogenase

JH Ahn, H Seo, W Park, J Seok, JA Lee, WJ Kim… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Succinic acid (SA), a dicarboxylic acid of industrial importance, can be efficiently produced
by metabolically engineered Mannheimia succiniciproducens. Malate dehydrogenase …

Direct carbon capture for the production of high-performance biodegradable plastics by cyanobacterial cell factories

C Tan, F Tao, P Xu - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Plastic pollution caused by non-biodegradable plastics is one of the most widely discussed
and notable challenges of the 21st century. Developing biodegradable plastics, such as …

Metabolic engineering of Synechococcus elongatus 7942 for enhanced sucrose biosynthesis

B Wang, C Zuniga, MT Guarnieri, K Zengler… - Metabolic …, 2023 - Elsevier
The capability of cyanobacteria to produce sucrose from CO 2 and light has a remarkable
societal and biotechnological impact since sucrose can serve as a carbon and energy …

Emerging species and genome editing tools: future prospects in cyanobacterial synthetic biology

GAR Gale, AA Schiavon Osorio, LA Mills, B Wang… - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in synthetic biology and an emerging algal biotechnology market have
spurred a prolific increase in the availability of molecular tools for cyanobacterial research …

Genome-scale metabolic network models for industrial microorganisms metabolic engineering: current advances and future prospects

Z Gong, J Chen, X Jiao, H Gong, D Pan, L Liu… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
The construction of high-performance microbial cell factories (MCFs) is the centerpiece of
biomanufacturing. However, the complex metabolic regulatory network of microorganisms …

Acquired Phototrophy and Its Implications for Bloom Dynamics of the Teleaulax-Mesodinium-Dinophysis-Complex

AA Anschütz, KJ Flynn, A Mitra - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The dinoflagellate Dinophysis is responsible for causing diarrhetic shellfish poisoning
impacting shellfish aquaculture globally. Dinophysis species are invariably plastidic …

Highlighting the potential of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 as platform to produce α-linolenic acid through an updated genome-scale metabolic modeling

M Santos-Merino, Á Gargantilla-Becerra… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic organisms that capture energy from sunlight using oxygenic
photosynthesis and transform CO2 into products of interest such as fatty acids …

Pseudomonas putida as saviour for troubled Synechococcus elongatus in a synthetic co-culture – interaction studies based on a multi-OMICs approach

F Kratzl, M Urban, J Pandhal, M Shi, C Meng… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
In their natural habitats, microbes rarely exist in isolation; instead, they thrive in consortia,
where various interactions occur. In this study, a defined synthetic co-culture of the …