A critical review of genome editing and synthetic biology applications in metabolic engineering of microalgae and cyanobacteria

IS Ng, BB Keskin, SI Tan - Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Being the green gold of the future, microalgae and cyanobacteria have recently attracted
considerable interest worldwide, for their metabolites such as lipids, protein, pigments, and …

Toolboxes for cyanobacteria: recent advances and future direction

T Sun, S Li, X Song, J Diao, L Chen, W Zhang - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are important primary producers and model organisms for
studying photosynthesis and elements cycling on earth. Due to the ability to absorb sunlight …

Metallochaperones and metalloregulation in bacteria

DA Capdevila, KA Edmonds… - Essays in biochemistry, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Bacterial transition metal homoeostasis or simply 'metallostasis' describes the process by
which cells control the intracellular availability of functionally required metal cofactors, from …

The type VI secretion system engages a redox-regulated dual-functional heme transporter for zinc acquisition

M Si, Y Wang, B Zhang, C Zhao, Y Kang, H Bai, D Wei… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
The type VI secretion system was recently reported to be involved in zinc acquisition, but the
underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we report that Burkholderia thailandensis …

Exploring the diversity of the thioredoxin systems in cyanobacteria

MJ Mallén-Ponce, MJ Huertas, FJ Florencio - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cyanobacteria evolved the ability to perform oxygenic photosynthesis using light energy to
reduce CO2 from electrons extracted from water and form nutrients. These organisms also …

Non-redundant nature of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum plasmidome revealed by comparative genomic analysis of 105 strains

D Davray, H Bawane, R Kulkarni - Food Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Lactiplantibacillus plantarum is a homofermentative lactic acid bacterium (LAB) most often
found in fermented foods with many strains displaying probiotic properties. Strains …

Plasmids encode niche-specific traits in Lactobacillaceae

D Davray, D Deo, R Kulkarni - Microbial Genomics, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Species belonging to the family Lactobacillaceae are found in highly diverse environments
and play an important role in fermented foods and probiotic products. Many of these species …

Corynebacterium glutamicum methionine sulfoxide reductase A uses both mycoredoxin and thioredoxin for regeneration and oxidative stress resistance

M Si, L Zhang, MT Chaudhry, W Ding… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Oxidation of methionine leads to the formation of the S and R diastereomers of methionine
sulfoxide (MetO), which can be reversed by the actions of two structurally unrelated classes …

Functional characterization of a mycothiol peroxidase in Corynebacterium glutamicum that uses both mycoredoxin and thioredoxin reducing systems in the response …

M Si, Y Xu, T Wang, M Long, W Ding, C Chen… - Biochemical …, 2015 - portlandpress.com
Previous studies have identified a putative mycothiol peroxidase (MPx) in Corynebacterium
glutamicum that shared high sequence similarity to sulfur-containing Gpx (glutathione …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of cyanobacterial photosynthesis

A Wilde, Y Hihara - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are well established model organisms for the study of oxygenic
photosynthesis, nitrogen metabolism, toxin biosynthesis, and salt acclimation. However, in …