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ReviewBioMed research international2015

Cyanobacteria: Photoautotrophic Microbial Factories for the Sustainable Synthesis of Industrial Products.

Nyok-Sean Lau, Minami Matsui, Amirul Al-Ashraf Abdullah

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Review in BioMed research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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54citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 196 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Mixotrophic Cultivation of a Native Cyanobacterium,Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2022
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  18. Light Modulation for Bioactive Pigment Production inBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  20. Insights into cyanobacterial alkane biosynthesis.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nyok-Sean LauCentre for Chemical Biology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia.
Minami MatsuiSynthetic Genomics Research Team, RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science, Biomass Engineering Research Division, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan.
Amirul Al-Ashraf AbdullahCentre for Chemical Biology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia ; School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia.
Universiti Sains Malaysia · MYRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyanobacteria are widely distributed Gram-negative bacteria with a long evolutionary history and the only prokaryotes that perform plant-like oxygenic photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria possess several advantages as hosts for biotechnological applications, including simple growth requirements, ease of genetic manipulation, and attractive platforms for carbon neutral production process. The use of photosynthetic cyanobacteria to directly convert carbon dioxide to biofuels is an emerging area of interest. Equipped with the ability to degrade environmental pollutants and remove heavy metals, cyanobacteria are promising tools for bioremediation and wastewater treatment. Cyanobacteria are characterized by the ability to produce a spectrum of bioactive compounds with antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antialgal properties that are of pharmaceutical and agricultural significance. Several strains of cyanobacteria are also sources of high-value chemicals, for example, pigments, vitamins, and enzymes. Recent advances in biotechnological approaches have facilitated researches directed towards maximizing the production of desired products in cyanobacteria and realizing the potential of these bacteria for various industrial applications. In this review, the potential of cyanobacteria as sources of energy, bioactive compounds, high-value chemicals, and tools for aquatic bioremediation and recent progress in engineering cyanobacteria for these bioindustrial applications are discussed.

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BiofuelsGenetic EngineeringBiological ProductsBiotechnologyCarbon DioxideCyanobacteriaFermentationHumansBiofuelsBiological ProductsCarbon Dioxide

Identifiers

PMID26199945
PMCPMC4496466
OpenAlexW1563307714

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