Cyanobacteria as cell factories: the roles of host and pathway engineering and translational research

D Jaiswal, D Sahasrabuddhe, PP Wangikar - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Host organisms need to tolerate outdoor conditions and abiotic stresses.•Robust,
fast-growing cyanobacterial strains can be engineered as efficient hosts.•Engineered and …

The role of systems biology in developing non-model cyanobacteria as hosts for chemical production

B Mukherjee, S Madhu, PP Wangikar - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Repertoire of industrially relevant cyanobacterial strains needs to be
expanded.•Genome engineering tools and well-characterized synthetic biology parts are …

Cyanobacteria as whole-cell factories: current status and future prospectives

J Toepel, R Karande, S Klähn, B Bühler - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Concepts making direct use of light energy to drive biotransformation
reactions.•Regulatory proteins as tools to control energy and carbon fluxes in …

Recent advances in synthetic biology of cyanobacteria for improved chemicals production

F Wang, Y Gao, G Yang - Bioengineered, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Cyanobacteria are Gram-negative photoautotrophic prokaryotes and have shown great
importance to the Earth's ecology. Based on their capability in oxygenic photosynthesis and …

Systems and synthetic biology for the biotechnological application of cyanobacteria

M Hagemann, WR Hess - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cyanobacteria attracted systems biology approaches early on, since they are
evolutionary related to plastid in eukaryotic phototrophs and are increasingly used as green …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Engineering cyanobacteria as photosynthetic feedstock factories

SG Hays, DC Ducat - Photosynthesis research, 2015 - Springer
Carbohydrate feedstocks are at the root of bioindustrial production and are needed in
greater quantities than ever due to increased prioritization of renewable fuels with reduced …

New applications of synthetic biology tools for cyanobacterial metabolic engineering

M Santos-Merino, AK Singh, DC Ducat - Frontiers in bioengineering …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cyanobacteria are promising microorganisms for sustainable biotechnologies, yet unlocking
their potential requires radical re-engineering and application of cutting-edge synthetic …