ArticleCommunications biology2020
A marine photosynthetic microbial cell factory as a platform for spider silk production.
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- Spider silk-based structural proteins as tough, biodegradable, and sustainable polymers.Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences · 2026Review
- Evaluation of nitrogen fixation in the marine purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum under autotrophic and heterotrophic conditions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Biology of Natural Polymers Accelerates and Expands the Science of Biomacromolecules: A Focus on Structural Proteins.Biomacromolecules · 2025Review
- Low-salinity medium for large-scale biomass production of the marine purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum.PloS one · 2025Article
- Expression of spider silk protein in tobacco improves drought tolerance with minimal effects on its mechanotype.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025Article
- Disentangling the Web: An Interdisciplinary Review on the Potential and Feasibility of Spider Silk Bioproduction.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2024Review
- Review of Spider Silk Applications in Biomedical and Tissue Engineering.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase as a target for regulating carbon flux distribution and antioxidant capacity in Phaeodactylum tricornutum.Communications biology · 2023Article
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- Protein-Based Biological Materials: Molecular Design and Artificial Production.Chemical reviews · 2023Review
- Bioengineering of spider silks for the production of biomedical materials.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Recombinant Spider Silk: Promises and Bottlenecks.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Peptide-Mediated Gene Transfer into Marine Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Photosynthetic microorganisms such as cyanobacteria, purple bacteria and microalgae have attracted great interest as promising platforms for economical and sustainable production of bioenergy, biochemicals, and biopolymers. Here, we demonstrate heterotrophic production of spider dragline silk proteins, major ampullate spidroins (MaSp), in a marine photosynthetic purple bacterium, Rhodovulum sulfidophilum, under both photoheterotrophic and photoautotrophic growth conditions. Spider silk is a biodegradable and biocompatible material with remarkable mechanical properties. R. sulfidophilum grow by utilizing abundant and renewable nonfood bioresources such as seawater, sunlight, and gaseous CO
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