Photosynthetic terpene hydrocarbon production for fuels and chemicals

The compatibility of potential bioderived fuels with Jet A-1 aviation kerosene

(2014) Christopher J. Chuck et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Carbon partitioning to the terpenoid biosynthetic pathway enables heterologous β-phellandrene production in Escherichia coli cultures

(2014) Cinzia Formighieri et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Engineering cyanobacteria for the production of a cyclic hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 and H2O

(2014) Charles Halfmann et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Methylerythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway metabolic regulation

(2014) A. Banerjee et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

A faster Rubisco with potential to increase photosynthesis in crops

(2014) Myat T. Lin et al.   NATURE

Microfluidic high-throughput culturing of single cells for selection based on extracellular metabolite production or consumption

(2014) Benjamin L Wang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

β-Carboxysomal proteins assemble into highly organized structures inNicotianachloroplasts

(2014) Myat T. Lin et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Metabolic Flux Analysis of Plastidic Isoprenoid Biosynthesis in Poplar Leaves Emitting and Nonemitting Isoprene

(2014) A. Ghirardo et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Deoxyxylulose 5-Phosphate Synthase Controls Flux through the Methylerythritol 4-Phosphate Pathway in Arabidopsis

(2014) L. P. Wright et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Regulation of β-phellandrene synthase gene expression, recombinant protein accumulation, and monoterpene hydrocarbons production in Synechocystis transformants

(2014) Cinzia Formighieri et al.   PLANTA

Production of Squalene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2014) Elias Englund et al.   PLoS One

A High-Throughput Colorimetric Screening Assay for Terpene Synthase Activity Based on Substrate Consumption

(2014) Maiko Furubayashi et al.   PLoS One

Microbial Synthesis of Pinene

(2014) Stephen Sarria et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

High-Throughput Screening for Terpene-Synthase-Cyclization Activity and Directed Evolution of a Terpene Synthase

(2013) Ryan Lauchli et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Methylerythritol Phosphate Pathway of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis

(2013) Lishan Zhao et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Engineering cyanobacteria to improve photosynthetic production of alka(e)nes

(2013) Weihua Wang et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Carbon partitioning in photosynthesis

(2013) Anastasios Melis   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Current development in isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis and regulation

(2013) Wei-chen Chang et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Metabolic and cellular organization in evolutionarily diverse microalgae as related to biofuels production

(2013) Mark Hildebrand et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Advances in microalgae engineering and synthetic biology applications for biofuel production

(2013) Javier A Gimpel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Feedback Inhibition of Deoxy-d-xylulose-5-phosphate Synthase Regulates the Methylerythritol 4-Phosphate Pathway

(2013) Aparajita Banerjee et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for limonene and perillyl alcohol production

(2013) Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Functions, Compositions, and Evolution of the Two Types of Carboxysomes: Polyhedral Microcompartments That Facilitate CO2 Fixation in Cyanobacteria and Some Proteobacteria

(2013) B. D. Rae et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Heterologous Expression of the Mevalonic Acid Pathway in Cyanobacteria Enhances Endogenous Carbon Partitioning to Isoprene

(2013) Fiona K. Bentley et al.   Molecular Plant

Microbial production of short-chain alkanes

(2013) Yong Jun Choi et al.   NATURE

Metabolic engineering of biomass for high energy density: oilseed-like triacylglycerol yields from plant leaves

(2013) Thomas Vanhercke et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Improving Photosynthesis

(2013) J. R. Evans   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Determination of Residues Responsible for Substrate and Product Specificity of Solanum habrochaites Short-Chain cis-Prenyltransferases

(2013) J.-H. Kang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

In Vivo Packaging of Triacylglycerols Enhances Arabidopsis Leaf Biomass and Energy Density

(2013) S. Winichayakul et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Combination of Entner-Doudoroff Pathway with MEP Increases Isoprene Production in Engineered Escherichia coli

(2013) Huaiwei Liu et al.   PLoS One

Transporter-mediated biofuel secretion

(2013) R. Doshi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Thylakoid-Located Two-Pore K + Channel Controls Photosynthetic Light Utilization in Plants

(2013) Luca Carraretto et al.   SCIENCE

Retrograde Signaling by the Plastidial Metabolite MEcPP Regulates Expression of Nuclear Stress-Response Genes

(2012) Yanmei Xiao et al.   CELL

Sustained photosynthetic conversion of CO2 to ethylene in recombinant cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803

(2012) Justin Ungerer et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Cyanobacterial biofuel production

(2012) Iara M.P. Machado et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

The cyanobacterial CCM as a source of genes for improving photosynthetic CO2 fixation in crop species

(2012) G. Dean Price et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Terpenoid synthase structures: a so far incomplete view of complex catalysis

(2012) Yang Gao et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Microbial engineering for the production of advanced biofuels

(2012) Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya et al.   NATURE

Engineering triterpene metabolism in tobacco

(2012) Shuiqin Wu et al.   PLANTA

Metabolite Profiling Identified Methylerythritol Cyclodiphosphate Efflux as a Limiting Step in Microbial Isoprenoid Production

(2012) Kang Zhou et al.   PLoS One

Thylakoid potassium channel is required for efficient photosynthesis in cyanobacteria

(2012) V. Checchetto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Detailing the optimality of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria through systems biology analysis

(2012) J. Nogales et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ATP drives direct photosynthetic production of 1-butanol in cyanobacteria

(2012) E. I. Lan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-Assembly of Synthetic Metabolons through Synthetic Protein Scaffolds: One-Step Purification, Co-immobilization, and Substrate Channeling

(2012) Chun You et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Genome-Scale Modeling of Light-Driven Reductant Partitioning and Carbon Fluxes in Diazotrophic Unicellular Cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142

(2012) Trang T. Vu et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Metabolic engineering of microbial pathways for advanced biofuels production

(2011) Fuzhong Zhang et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Photosynthesis-to-fuels: from sunlight to hydrogen, isoprene, and botryococcene production

(2011) Anastasios Melis   Energy & Environmental Science

Unusual Tigliane Diterpenes fromEuphorbia grandicornis

(2011) Peter Forgo et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Photosynthesis driven conversion of carbon dioxide to fatty alcohols and hydrocarbons in cyanobacteria

(2011) Xiaoming Tan et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Generation of the potent anti-malarial drug artemisinin in tobacco

(2011) Moran Farhi et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Relative potential of biosynthetic pathways for biofuels and bio-based products

(2011) Deepak Dugar et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Isoprene synthesis in plants: lessons from a transgenic tobacco model

(2011) CLAUDIA E. VICKERS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Synthesis of three advanced biofuels from ionic liquid-pretreated switchgrass using engineered Escherichia coli

(2011) G. Bokinsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement

(2011) R. E. Blankenship et al.   SCIENCE

Identification and microbial production of a terpene-based advanced biofuel

(2011) Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya et al.   Nature Communications

Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield

(2010) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

A perspective: Photosynthetic production of fatty acid-based biofuels in genetically engineered cyanobacteria

(2010) Xuefeng Lu   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Overexpression of an exogenous phytoene synthase gene in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii leads to an increase in the content of carotenoids

(2010) I. Couso et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS

Enhancing C3 Photosynthesis

(2010) S. von Caemmerer et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Prospect of Using Cyanobacterial Bicarbonate Transporters to Improve Leaf Photosynthesis in C3 Crop Plants

(2010) G. D. Price et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Importance of Energy Balance in Improving Photosynthetic Productivity

(2010) D. M. Kramer et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Optimizing Antenna Size to Maximize Photosynthetic Efficiency

(2010) D. R. Ort et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Design and analysis of synthetic carbon fixation pathways

(2010) A. Bar-Even et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Isoprenoid Pathway Optimization for Taxol Precursor Overproduction in Escherichia coli

(2010) P. K. Ajikumar et al.   SCIENCE

Biosynthesis of Plant Isoprenoids: Perspectives for Microbial Engineering

(2009) James Kirby et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Unravelling the regulatory mechanisms that modulate the MEP pathway in higher plants

(2009) E. Cordoba et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Revisiting the IspH Catalytic System in the Deoxyxylulose Phosphate Pathway: Achieving High Activity

(2009) Youli Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Engineering a platform for photosynthetic isoprene production in cyanobacteria, using Synechocystis as the model organism

(2009) Pia Lindberg et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

An ancient light-harvesting protein is critical for the regulation of algal photosynthesis

(2009) Graham Peers et al.   NATURE

Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution

(2009) Harris H. Wang et al.   NATURE

Direct photosynthetic recycling of carbon dioxide to isobutyraldehyde

(2009) Shota Atsumi et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux

(2009) John E Dueber et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Within-plant distribution and emission of sesquiterpenes from Copaifera officinalis

(2009) Feng Chen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Developmental and structural features of secretory canals in root and shoot wood of Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. (Leguminosae–Caesalpinioideae)

(2009) Tatiane Maria Rodrigues et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Smelling global climate change: mitigation of function for plant volatile organic compounds

(2009) Joshua S. Yuan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Redesigning Enzymes Based on Adaptive Evolution for Optimal Function in Synthetic Metabolic Pathways

(2008) Yasuo Yoshikuni et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

Non-fermentative pathways for synthesis of branched-chain higher alcohols as biofuels

(2008) Shota Atsumi et al.   NATURE

Quantitative exploration of the catalytic landscape separating divergent plant sesquiterpene synthases

(2008) Paul E O'Maille et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

A systems biology investigation of the MEP/terpenoid and shikimate/phenylpropanoid pathways points to multiple levels of metabolic control in sweet basil glandular trichomes

(2008) Zhengzhi Xie et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Molecular and genomic basis of volatile-mediated indirect defense against insects in rice

(2008) Joshua S. Yuan et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Divergent Regulation of Terpenoid Metabolism in the Trichomes of Wild and Cultivated Tomato Species

(2008) K. Besser et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Biodiesel from microalgae beats bioethanol

(2008) Yusuf Chisti   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Biofuel alternatives to ethanol: pumping the microbial well

(2008) J.L. Fortman et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Plants to power: bioenergy to fuel the future

(2008) Joshua S. Yuan et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE