Salt acclimation of cyanobacteria and their application in biotechnology

N Pade, M Hagemann - Life, 2014 - mdpi.com
The long evolutionary history and photo-autotrophic lifestyle of cyanobacteria has allowed
them to colonize almost all photic habitats on Earth, including environments with high or …

Progress and perspective on cyanobacterial glycogen metabolism engineering

G Luan, S Zhang, M Wang, X Lu - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
As important oxygenic photoautotrophs, cyanobacteria are also generally considered as one
of the most promising microbial chassis for photosynthetic biomanufacturing. Diverse …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering Limonene and Bisabolene Production in Wild Type and a Glycogen-Deficient Mutant of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

FK Davies, VH Work, AS Beliaev… - … in bioengineering and …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The plant terpenoids limonene (C10H16) and α-bisabolene (C15H24) are hydrocarbon
precursors to a range of industrially relevant chemicals. High-titer microbial synthesis of …

Cyanobacterial biomass as carbohydrate and nutrient feedstock for bioethanol production by yeast fermentation

KB Möllers, D Cannella, H Jørgensen… - Biotechnology for …, 2014 - Springer
Background Microbial bioconversion of photosynthetic biomass is a promising approach to
the generation of biofuels and other bioproducts. However, rapid, high-yield, and simple …

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 …

Glycogen production for biofuels by the euryhaline cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 from an oceanic environment

S Aikawa, A Nishida, SH Ho, JS Chang… - Biotechnology for …, 2014 - Springer
Background Oxygenic photosynthetic microorganisms such as cyanobacteria and
microalgae have attracted attention as an alternative carbon source for the next generation …

Effects of reduced and enhanced glycogen pools on salt-induced sucrose production in a sucrose-secreting strain of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

C Qiao, Y Duan, M Zhang, M Hagemann… - Applied and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sucrose and glycogen syntheses in cyanobacteria share the common precursor glucose-1-
phosphate. It is generally assumed that lowering glycogen synthesis could drive more …

Genetic manipulation of a metabolic enzyme and a transcriptional regulator increasing succinate excretion from unicellular cyanobacterium

T Osanai, T Shirai, H Iijima, Y Nakaya… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Succinate is a building block compound that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has
declared as important in biorefineries, and it is widely used as a commodity chemical. Here …

Modifying the cyanobacterial metabolism as a key to efficient biopolymer production in photosynthetic microorganisms

M Ciebiada, K Kubiak, M Daroch - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cyanobacteria are photoautotrophic bacteria commonly found in the natural environment.
Due to the ecological benefits associated with the assimilation of carbon dioxide from the …

Metabolic engineering of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 to produce poly-3-hydroxybutyrate and poly-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate

S Zhang, Y Liu, DA Bryant - Metabolic engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are an important group of photoautotrophic bacteria that have been
engineered and used to produce a wide range of biomaterials and biofuels, which are …