Highlights•PUFAs are applied worldwide in superfoods, aquafeed and pharmaceuticals.•
Climate warming and declining fishery cause a severe supply and demand gap.•The PUFAs …

Producing bio-based chemicals is imperative to establish an eco-friendly circular
bioeconomy. However, the compromised titer of these biochemicals hampers their …

The objective of this study was to implement direct sunlight-driven conversion of CO 2 into a
naturally excreted ready-to-use fuel. We engineered four different synthetic metabolic …

Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are capable of utilizing sunlight and CO 2 as sole energy and
carbon sources, respectively. With genetically modified cyanobacteria being used as a …

Background The microbial production of fatty acids has received great attention in the last
few years as feedstock for the production of renewable energy. The main advantage of using …

Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) especially ω-3 fatty acids provide
significant health benefits for human beings. However, ω-3 LC-PUFAs cannot be …

Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic organisms that capture energy from sunlight using oxygenic
photosynthesis and transform CO2 into products of interest such as fatty acids …

The current economic and environmental context requests an accelerating development of
sustainable alternatives for the production of various target compounds. Biological …

Alpha-linolenic acid and stearidonic acid are precursors of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty
acids, essential nutrients in the human diet. The ability of cyanobacteria to directly convert …

Essential fatty acids (EFAs) provide various biological and physiological benefits; however,
they cannot be synthesised in the human body, and their intake must be derived from the …