Carbon/nitrogen homeostasis control in cyanobacteria

K Forchhammer, KA Selim - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Carbon/nitrogen (C/N) balance sensing is a key requirement for the
maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Therefore, cyanobacteria have evolved a …

Assembly, function and evolution of cyanobacterial carboxysomes

CA Kerfeld, MR Melnicki - Current opinion in plant biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Alpha and beta carboxysomes differ in composition, assembly, and
evolution.•Alphas appear to co-assemble shell and cargo proteins; betas assemble inside …

Carbon/nitrogen metabolic balance: lessons from cyanobacteria

CC Zhang, CZ Zhou, RL Burnap, L Peng - Trends in Plant Science, 2018 - cell.com
Carbon and nitrogen are the two most abundant nutrient elements for all living organisms,
and their metabolism is tightly coupled. What are the signaling mechanisms that cells use to …

Prospects for Engineering Biophysical CO2 Concentrating Mechanisms into Land Plants to Enhance Yields

JH Hennacy, MC Jonikas - Annual review of plant biology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Although cyanobacteria and algae represent a small fraction of the biomass of all primary
producers, their photosynthetic activity accounts for roughly half of the daily CO2 fixation that …

Biotechnology for carbon capture and fixation: Critical review and future directions

MA Zahed, E Movahed, A Khodayari… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
To mitigate the growing threat of climate change and develop novel technologies that can
eliminate carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas derived from the flue gas …

The many types of carbonic anhydrases in photosynthetic organisms

RJ DiMario, MC Machingura, GL Waldrop, JV Moroney - Plant science, 2018 - Elsevier
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are enzymes that catalyze the interconversion of CO 2 and HCO
3−. In nature, there are multiple families of CA, designated with the Greek letters α through θ …

Diurnal metabolic control in cyanobacteria requires perception of second messenger signaling molecule c-di-AMP by the carbon control protein SbtB

KA Selim, M Haffner, M Burkhardt, O Mantovani… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Because of their photosynthesis-dependent lifestyle, cyanobacteria evolved sophisticated
regulatory mechanisms to adapt to oscillating day-night metabolic changes. How they …

Functional reconstitution of a bacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism in Escherichia coli

AI Flamholz, E Dugan, C Blikstad, S Gleizer… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Many photosynthetic organisms employ a CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) to increase
the rate of CO2 fixation via the Calvin cycle. CCMs catalyze≈ 50% of global photosynthesis …

[HTML][HTML] Detrimental vs. beneficial influence of ions during solar (SODIS) and photo-Fenton disinfection of E. coli in water:(Bi) carbonate, chloride, nitrate and nitrite …

E Rommozzi, S Giannakis, R Giovannetti… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we studied the effect of inorganic ions occurring in natural waters on E. coli
inactivation by solar and photo-Fenton processes, two crucial methods for drinking water …

[HTML][HTML] Current advances in engineering cyanobacteria and their applications for photosynthetic butanol production

X Liu, H Xie, S Roussou, P Lindblad - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cyanobacteria can be engineered for chemical production from solar energy and
CO 2.•Recent progress has advanced cyanobacteria as green cell factories for …