Highlights•One-carbon compounds can be made from CO 2 to provide renewable microbial
feedstocks.•Methanol and formate have key advantages over gaseous one-carbon …

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions has been a hot research topic in recent years.
The integration of microalgae cultivation using CO 2 from power plants and factories has …

Highlights•MES was proposed as a route to convert CO 2 to commodities.•Performance
indicators of MES are plateauing and far from economic competitiveness.•Effective water …

Carbon fixation is the process by which CO2 is converted from a gas into biomass. The
Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle (CBB) is the dominant carbon-consuming pathway on …

Highlights•Formate is an ideal mediator between the physicochemical and biological
realms.•Formate can be efficiently produced from various highly available …

Archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are among the most abundant prokaryotes on Earth
and are widely distributed in marine, terrestrial, and geothermal environments. All studied …

Enzymatic electrosynthesis has gained more and more interest as an emerging green
synthesis platform, particularly for the fixation of CO2. However, the simultaneous utilization …

Autotrophic microorganisms convert CO2 into biomass by deriving energy from light or
inorganic electron donors. These CO2-fixing microorganisms have a large, but so far only …

Kinetic models of metabolism at a genome scale that faithfully recapitulate the effect of
multiple genetic interventions would be transformative in our ability to reliably design novel …

In metabolism research, thermodynamics is usually used to determine the directionality of a
reaction or the feasibility of a pathway. However, the relationship between thermodynamic …