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ReviewWorld journal of microbiology & biotechnology2021

Approaches in the photosynthetic production of sustainable fuels by cyanobacteria using tools of synthetic biology.

Indrajeet Yadav, Akhil Rautela, Sanjay Kumar

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Review in World journal of microbiology & biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 authors.

Indrajeet YadavSchool of Biochemical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221005, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7212-1483
Akhil RautelaSchool of Biochemical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221005, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9069-8304
Sanjay KumarSchool of Biochemical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221005, India. sanjaykr.bce@itbhu.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9239-2966

Funding

IIT(BHU) Varanasi SEED GRANT
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyanobacteria, photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms having a simple genetic composition are the prospective photoautotrophic cell factories for the production of a wide range of biofuel molecules. The simple genetic composition of cyanobacteria allows effortless genetic manipulation which leads to increased research endeavors from the synthetic biology approach. Various unicellular model cyanobacterial strains like Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 have been successfully engineered for biofuels generation. Improved development of synthetic biology tools, genetic modification methods and advancement in transformation techniques to construct a strain that can contain multiple foreign genes in a single operon have vastly expanded the functions that can be used for engineering photosynthetic cyanobacteria for the generation of various biofuel molecules. In this review, recent advancements and approaches in synthetic biology tools used for cyanobacterial genome editing have been discussed. Apart from this, cyanobacterial productions of various fuel molecules like isoprene, limonene, α-farnesene, squalene, alkanes, butanol, and fatty acids, which can be a substitute for petroleum and fossil fuels in the future, have been elaborated.

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BiofuelsAlkanesButanolsCarrier ProteinsCRISPR-Cas SystemsCyanobacteriaFatty AcidsLimoneneMetabolic EngineeringPhotosynthesisSesquiterpenesSqualeneSynechococcusSynechocystisSynthetic BiologyAlkanesalpha-farneseneBiofuelsButanolsCarrier ProteinsFatty Acidsisobutyl alcoholLimoneneSesquiterpenesSqualeneBiofuelsCyanobacterial cell factoryMetabolic engineeringSustainable energySynthetic biology

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