Engineering pathways to biofuels in photoautotrophic microorganisms

Paradigm of Monoterpene (β-phellandrene) Hydrocarbons Production via Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria

(2013) Fiona K. Bentley et al.   BioEnergy Research

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

(2013) Weihua Wang et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Probing the Mechanism of Cyanobacterial Aldehyde Decarbonylase Using a Cyclopropyl Aldehyde

(2013) Bishwajit Paul et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fatty Aldehydes in Cyanobacteria Are a Metabolically Flexible Precursor for a Diversity of Biofuel Products

(2013) Brett K. Kaiser et al.   PLoS One

Fermentation metabolism and its evolution in algae

(2013) Claudia Catalanotti et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Design, Engineering, and Construction of Photosynthetic Microbial Cell Factories for Renewable Solar Fuel Production

(2012) Peter Lindblad et al.   AMBIO

Isoprene Production Via the Mevalonic Acid Pathway in Escherichia coli (Bacteria)

(2012) Andreas Zurbriggen et al.   BioEnergy Research

Physiological effects of free fatty acid production in genetically engineered Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

(2012) Anne M. Ruffing et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Effects of fatty acid activation on photosynthetic production of fatty acid-based biofuels in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803

(2012) Qianqian Gao et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Comprehensive guide to acetyl-carboxylases in algae

(2012) Roger Huerlimann et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Photo-catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to organic acids by a recombinant cyanobacterium incapable of glycogen storage

(2012) Damian Carrieri et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

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

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

Bioengineering of carbon fixation, biofuels, and biochemicals in cyanobacteria and plants

(2012) Lisa Rosgaard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Impaired glycogen synthesis causes metabolic overflow reactions and affects stress responses in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2012) M. Grundel et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Ocean Science: The power of plankton

(2012) Paul Falkowski   NATURE

An insect-specific P450 oxidative decarbonylase for cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis

(2012) Y. Qiu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carboxylic acid reductase is a versatile enzyme for the conversion of fatty acids into fuels and chemical commodities

(2012) M. K. Akhtar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modular Synthase-Encoding Gene Involved in α-Olefin Biosynthesis in Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002

(2011) Daniel Mendez-Perez et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of a Fatty Acyl-CoA Reductase fromMarinobacter aquaeoleiVT8: A Bacterial Enzyme Catalyzing the Reduction of Fatty Acyl-CoA to Fatty Alcohol

(2011) Robert M. Willis et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Diffusion-based process for carbon dioxide uptake and isoprene emission in gaseous/aqueous two-phase photobioreactors by photosynthetic microorganisms

(2011) Fiona K. Bentley et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Improving photosynthesis and metabolic networks for the competitive production of phototroph-derived biofuels

(2011) Victoria H Work et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

TAG, You’re it! Chlamydomonas as a reference organism for understanding algal triacylglycerol accumulation

(2011) Sabeeha S Merchant et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

(2011) Anastasios Melis   Energy & Environmental Science

A prokaryotic acyl-CoA reductase performing reduction of fatty acyl-CoA to fatty alcohol

(2011) Per Hofvander et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Detection of Formate, Rather than Carbon Monoxide, As the Stoichiometric Coproduct in Conversion of Fatty Aldehydes to Alkanes by a Cyanobacterial Aldehyde Decarbonylase

(2011) Douglas M. Warui et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2011) Xiaoming Tan et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Conversion of proteins into biofuels by engineering nitrogen flux

(2011) Yi-Xin Huo et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The family of terpene synthases in plants: a mid-size family of genes for specialized metabolism that is highly diversified throughout the kingdom

(2011) Feng Chen et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Overexpression of Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM1 Promotes Wax Very-Long-Chain Alkane Biosynthesis and Influences Plant Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses

(2011) B. Bourdenx et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Fatty acid production in genetically modified cyanobacteria

(2011) X. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

7 Billion and Counting

(2011) D. E. Bloom   SCIENCE

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

Enzymes of the mevalonate pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis

(2010) Henry M. Miziorko   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Enzymatic pretreatment of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii biomass for ethanol production

(2010) Seung Phill Choi et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Inhibition of starch synthesis results in overproduction of lipids in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2010) Yantao Li et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Life Cycle Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for an Ethanol Production Process Based on Blue-Green Algae

(2010) Dexin Luo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Increased Lipid Accumulation in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtiista7-10Starchless Isoamylase Mutant and Increased Carbohydrate Synthesis in Complemented Strains

(2010) Victoria H. Work et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Genetic Engineering of Algae for Enhanced Biofuel Production

(2010) Randor Radakovits et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Improving the Clostridium acetobutylicum butanol fermentation by engineering the strain for co-production of riboflavin

(2010) Xianpeng Cai et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

The production of the sesquiterpene β-caryophyllene in a transgenic strain of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis

(2010) Robert E. Reinsvold et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Chlamydomonas starchless mutant defective in ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase hyper-accumulates triacylglycerol

(2010) Yantao Li et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Quantitative analysis and engineering of fatty acid biosynthesis in E. coli

(2010) Tiangang Liu et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Genetic engineering of fatty acid chain length in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

(2010) Randor Radakovits et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Origins and Early Evolution of the Mevalonate Pathway of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis in the Three Domains of Life

(2010) J. Lombard et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Microbial production of fatty-acid-derived fuels and chemicals from plant biomass

(2010) Eric J. Steen et al.   NATURE

Design and characterization of molecular tools for a Synthetic Biology approach towards developing cyanobacterial biotechnology

(2010) Hsin-Ho Huang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Fatty Acid Activation in Cyanobacteria Mediated by Acyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Synthetase Enables Fatty Acid Recycling

(2010) D. Kaczmarzyk et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Cloning and functional characterization of β-phellandrene synthase from Lavandula angustifolia

(2010) Zerihun A. Demissie et al.   PLANTA

Combining metabolic and protein engineering of a terpenoid biosynthetic pathway for overproduction and selectivity control

(2010) E. Leonard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes

(2010) A. Schirmer et al.   SCIENCE

Purification, Characterization, and Potential Bacterial Wax Production Role of an NADPH-Dependent Fatty Aldehyde Reductase from Marinobacter aquaeolei VT8

(2009) B. D. Wahlen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Antibacterial free fatty acids: activities, mechanisms of action and biotechnological potential

(2009) Andrew P. Desbois et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Energy biotechnology with cyanobacteria

(2009) S Andreas Angermayr et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microbial production of advanced transportation fuels in non-natural hosts

(2009) Michael R Connor et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Algal Lipid Bodies: Stress Induction, Purification, and Biochemical Characterization in Wild-Type and StarchlessChlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2009) Zi Teng Wang et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

The carbon and energy sources of the non-photosynthetic plastid in the malaria parasite

(2009) Liting Lim et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Flexibility in Anaerobic Metabolism as Revealed in a Mutant ofChlamydomonas reinhardtiiLacking Hydrogenase Activity

(2009) Alexandra Dubini et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Combinatorial expression of bacterial whole mevalonate pathway for the production of β-carotene in E. coli

(2009) Sang-Hwal Yoon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Elucidation of Multifaceted Evolutionary Processes of Microorganisms by Comparative Genome-Based Analysis

(2009) Thuy Vu An Nguyen   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

(2009) Pia Lindberg et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Direct photosynthetic recycling of carbon dioxide to isobutyraldehyde

(2009) Shota Atsumi et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Acetyl-CoA—Life at the metabolic nexus

(2009) David J. Oliver et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Solar energy conversion efficiencies in photosynthesis: Minimizing the chlorophyll antennae to maximize efficiency

(2009) Anastasios Melis   PLANT SCIENCE

Monoterpenes in the glandular trichomes of tomato are synthesized from a neryl diphosphate precursor rather than geranyl diphosphate

(2009) A. L. Schilmiller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metabolic engineering for advanced biofuels production from Escherichia coli

(2008) Shota Atsumi et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Aquatic phototrophs: efficient alternatives to land-based crops for biofuels

(2008) G Charles Dismukes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Overproduction of free fatty acids in E. coli: Implications for biodiesel production

(2008) Xuefeng Lu et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

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

(2008) Shota Atsumi et al.   NATURE

Optical properties of microalgae for enhanced biofuels production

(2008) Mautusi Mitra et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Terpenoid biomaterials

(2008) Jörg Bohlmann et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Microalgal triacylglycerols as feedstocks for biofuel production: perspectives and advances

(2008) Qiang Hu et al.   PLANT JOURNAL