Recent progress in genetically modified microalgae for enhanced carbon dioxide sequestration

B Barati, K Zeng, J Baeyens, S Wang, M Addy… - Biomass and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions has been a hot research topic in recent years.
The integration of microalgae cultivation using CO 2 from power plants and factories has …

Energy crosstalk between photosynthesis and the algal CO2-concentrating mechanisms

A Burlacot, G Peltier - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Microalgal photosynthesis is responsible for nearly half of the CO 2 annually captured by
Earth's ecosystems. In aquatic environments where the CO 2 availability is low, the CO 2 …

New horizons for building pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in plants to improve yields

L Adler, A Díaz-Ramos, Y Mao, KR Pukacz… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Many photosynthetic species have evolved CO2-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) to
improve the efficiency of CO2 assimilation by Rubisco and reduce the negative impacts of …

Adapting from Low to High: An Update to CO2-Concentrating Mechanisms of Cyanobacteria and Microalgae

EV Kupriyanova, NA Pronina, DA Los - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The intracellular accumulation of inorganic carbon (Ci) by microalgae and cyanobacteria
under ambient atmospheric CO2 levels was first documented in the 80s of the 20th Century …

Recent progress on systems and synthetic biology of diatoms for improving algal productivity

J Chen, Y Huang, Y Shu, X Hu, D Wu… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microalgae have drawn much attention for their potential applications as a sustainable
source for developing bioactive compounds, functional foods, feeds, and biofuels. Diatoms …

Mitochondrial carbonic anhydrases are needed for optimal photosynthesis at low CO2 levels in Chlamydomonas

AK Rai, T Chen, JV Moroney - Plant physiology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii can grow photosynthetically using CO2 or in the dark using
acetate as the carbon source. In the light in air, the CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) of …

Periplasmic carbonic anhydrase CAH1 contributes to high inorganic carbon affinity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

D Shimamura, T Ikeuchi, A Matsuda, Y Tsuji… - Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Carbonic anhydrase (CA), an enzyme conserved across species, is pivotal in the
interconversion of inorganic carbon (Ci; CO2, and HCO3−). Compared to the well-studied …

LCI1, a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plasma membrane protein, functions in active CO2 uptake under low CO2

A Kono, MH Spalding - The Plant Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In response to high CO2 environmental variability, green algae, such as Chlamydomonas
reinhardtii, have evolved multiple physiological states dictated by external CO2 …

From algae to plants: understanding pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms

E Catherall, S Musial, N Atkinson, CE Walker… - Trends in biochemical …, 2024 - cell.com
Pyrenoids are the key component of one of the most abundant biological CO 2 concentration
mechanisms found in nature. Pyrenoid-based CO 2-concentrating mechanisms (pCCMs) …

Inorganic carbon acquisition by aquatic primary producers

SD Rokitta, SA Kranz, B Rost - Blue planet, red and green …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The acquisition of dissolved inorganic carbon by aquatic primary producers became
increasingly challenging with higher structural complexity of algae, and with simultaneously …