Bioengineering of microalgae: recent advances, perspectives, and regulatory challenges for industrial application

G Kumar, A Shekh, S Jakhu, Y Sharma… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Microalgae, due to their complex metabolic capacity, are being continuously explored for
nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and other industrially important bioactives. However …

Phytoplankton in the Tara Ocean

JJ Pierella Karlusich, FM Ibarbalz… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthesis evolved in the ocean more than 2 billion years ago and is now performed by
a wide range of evolutionarily distinct organisms, including both prokaryotes and …

A chloroplast protein atlas reveals punctate structures and spatial organization of biosynthetic pathways

L Wang, W Patena, KA Van Baalen, Y Xie, ER Singer… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Chloroplasts are eukaryotic photosynthetic organelles that drive the global carbon cycle.
Despite their importance, our understanding of their protein composition, function, and …

Systematic characterization of gene function in the photosynthetic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

F Fauser, J Vilarrasa-Blasi, M Onishi, S Ramundo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most genes in photosynthetic organisms remain functionally uncharacterized. Here, using a
barcoded mutant library of the model eukaryotic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, we …

The origin and evolution of salicylic acid signaling and biosynthesis in plants

X Jia, L Wang, H Zhao, Y Zhang, Z Chen, L Xu, K Yi - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Salicylic acid (SA) plays a pivotal role in plant response to biotic and abiotic stress. Several
core SA signaling regulators and key proteins in SA biosynthesis have been well …

The Chlamydomonas Genome Project, version 6: Reference assemblies for mating-type plus and minus strains reveal extensive structural mutation in the laboratory

RJ Craig, SD Gallaher, S Shu, PA Salomé… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Five versions of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reference genome have been produced
over the last two decades. Here we present version 6, bringing significant advances in …

The structural basis of Rubisco phase separation in the pyrenoid

S He, HT Chou, D Matthies, T Wunder, MT Meyer… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Approximately one-third of global CO2 fixation occurs in a phase-separated algal organelle
called the pyrenoid. The existing data suggest that the pyrenoid forms by the phase …

Shuffled ATG8 interacting motifs form an ancestral bridge between UFMylation and autophagy

L Picchianti, V Sánchez de Medina Hernández… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
UFMylation involves the covalent modification of substrate proteins with UFM1 (Ubiquitin‐
fold modifier 1) and is important for maintaining ER homeostasis. Stalled translation triggers …

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 …

The pyrenoid: the eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle

S He, VL Crans, MC Jonikas - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The pyrenoid is a phase-separated organelle that enhances photosynthetic carbon
assimilation in most eukaryotic algae and the land plant hornwort lineage. Pyrenoids …