ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020
Engineering Photosynthetic Bioprocesses for Sustainable Chemical Production: A Review.
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- Improving a photosynthetic bioprocess with a ubiquitous additive: Using clay powder in the cultivation ofBiotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Biotechnological Applications of Cyanobacteria: Synechocystis and Synechococcus Strains.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2025Review
- Cryo-EM structure of a photosystem I variant containing an unusual plastoquinone derivative in its electron transfer chain.Science advances · 2024Article
- Introducing carbon assimilation in yeasts using photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The potential of CONature communications · 2023Review
- Biocatalytic conversion of sunlight and carbon dioxide to solar fuels and chemicals.RSC advances · 2022Review
- SEVA-Cpf1, a CRISPR-Cas12a vector for genome editing in cyanobacteria.Microbial cell factories · 2022Article
- Heterologous Lactate Synthesis inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Synthetic biology in marine cyanobacteria: Advances and challenges.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Synthetic Biology Approaches for Improving Chemical Production in Cyanobacteria.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Exploitation of Hetero- and Phototrophic Metabolic Modules for Redox-Intensive Whole-Cell Biocatalysis.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Combinatorial CRISPR Interference Library for Enhancing 2,3-BDO Production and Elucidating Key Genes in Cyanobacteria.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Introduction of NADH-dependent nitrate assimilation in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 improves photosynthetic production of 2-methyl-1-butanol and isobutanol.Metabolic engineering · 2022Article
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Abstract
Microbial production of chemicals using renewable feedstocks such as glucose has emerged as a green alternative to conventional chemical production processes that rely primarily on petroleum-based feedstocks. The carbon footprint of such processes can further be reduced by using engineered cells that harness solar energy to consume feedstocks traditionally considered to be wastes as their carbon sources. Photosynthetic bacteria utilize sophisticated photosystems to capture the energy from photons to generate reduction potential with such rapidity and abundance that cells often cannot use it fast enough and much of it is lost as heat and light. Engineering photosynthetic organisms could enable us to take advantage of this energy surplus by redirecting it toward the synthesis of commercially important products such as biofuels, bioplastics, commodity chemicals, and terpenoids. In this work, we review photosynthetic pathways in aerobic and anaerobic bacteria to better understand how these organisms have naturally evolved to harness solar energy. We also discuss more recent attempts at engineering both the photosystems and downstream reactions that transfer reducing power to improve target chemical production. Further, we discuss different methods for the optimization of photosynthetic bioprocess including the immobilization of cells and the optimization of light delivery. We anticipate this review will serve as an important resource for future efforts to engineer and harness photosynthetic bacteria for chemical production.
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