The primary carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria and its regulation

S Lucius, M Hagemann - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes capable of performing oxygenic photosynthesis.
Many cyanobacterial strains can live in different trophic modes, ranging from …

Plastid ancestors lacked a complete Entner-Doudoroff pathway, limiting plants to glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway

SE Evans, AE Franks, ME Bergman, NS Sethna… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Entner–Doudoroff (ED) pathway provides an alternative to glycolysis. It
converts 6-phosphogluconate (6-PG) to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and pyruvate in two …

A quantitative description of light-limited cyanobacterial growth using flux balance analysis

R Höper, D Komkova, T Zavřel… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The metabolism of phototrophic cyanobacteria is an integral part of global biogeochemical
cycles, and the capability of cyanobacteria to assimilate atmospheric CO2 into organic …

Phosphoketolase and KDPG aldolase metabolism modulate photosynthetic carbon yield in cyanobacteria

N Xie, C Sharma, K Rusche, X Wang - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cyanobacteria contribute to roughly a quarter of global net carbon fixation. During diel
light/dark growth, dark respiration significantly lowers the overall photosynthetic carbon yield …