Modifying the Cyanobacterial Metabolism as a Key to Efficient Biopolymer Production in Photosynthetic Microorganisms

Glycolytic Shunts Replenish the Calvin–Benson–Bassham Cycle as Anaplerotic Reactions in Cyanobacteria

(2020) Alexander Makowka et al.   Molecular Plant

Bacterial biopolymers: from pathogenesis to advanced materials

(2020) M. Fata Moradali et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Current knowledge and recent advances in understanding metabolism of the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2020) Lauren A. Mills et al.   BIOSCIENCE REPORTS

The Slr0058 Protein From Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Is a Novel Regulatory Protein Involved in PHB Granule Formation

(2020) Moritz Koch et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of a Type I RM System on Gene Expression and Glycogen Catabolism in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2020) Dongqing Wu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

On the Role and Production of Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2020) Moritz Koch et al.   Life-Basel

The role of the tyrosine kinase Wzc (Sll0923) and the phosphatase Wzb (Slr0328) in the production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) by Synechocystis PCC 6803

(2019) Sara B. Pereira et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Adopting a Theophylline-Responsive Riboswitch for Flexible Regulation and Understanding of Glycogen Metabolism in Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942

(2019) Xintong Chi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A diurnal flux balance model of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 metabolism

(2019) Debolina Sarkar et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Enhanced Nitrogen Fixation in a glgX-Deficient Strain of Cyanothece sp. Strain ATCC 51142, a Unicellular Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacterium

(2019) Michelle Liberton et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Thermosynechococcus as a thermophilic photosynthetic microbial cell factory for CO2 utilisation

(2019) Yuanmei Liang et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Progress and perspective on cyanobacterial glycogen metabolism engineering

(2019) Guodong Luan et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

PHB is Produced from Glycogen Turn-over during Nitrogen Starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2019) Moritz Koch et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Poly-β-Hydroxybutyrate Production by the Cyanobacterium Scytonema geitleri Bharadwaja under Varying Environmental Conditions

(2019) Manoj K. Singh et al.   Biomolecules

Emerging Species and Genome Editing Tools: Future Prospects in Cyanobacterial Synthetic Biology

(2019) Grant A. R. Gale et al.   Microorganisms

Strategies to Obtain Designer Polymers Based on Cyanobacterial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS)

(2019) Sara B. Pereira et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Circadian clock helps cyanobacteria manage energy in coastal and high latitude ocean

(2019) Ferdi L. Hellweger et al.   ISME Journal

Glycogen metabolism supports photosynthesis start through the OPP pathway in cyanobacteria

(2019) Shrameeta Shinde et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Contribution of protein synthesis depression to poly-β-hydroxybutyrate accumulation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 under nutrient-starved conditions

(2019) Kazuho Hirai et al.   Scientific Reports

Increased poly-β-hydroxybutyrate production from carbon dioxide in randomly mutated cells of cyanobacterial strain Synechocystis sp. PCC 6714: Mutant generation and characterization

(2018) Donya Kamravamanesh et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Re-direction of carbon flux to key precursor malonyl-CoA via artificial small RNAs in photosynthetic Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2018) Tao Sun et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Photobioreactor cultivation strategies for microalgae and cyanobacteria

(2018) Tylor J. Johnson et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS

Physiological properties and genetic analysis related to exopolysaccharide (EPS) production in the fresh-water unicellular cyanobacterium Aphanothece sacrum (Suizenji Nori)

(2018) Kaori Ohki et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Engineered cyanobacteria with enhanced growth show increased ethanol production and higher biofuel to biomass ratio

(2018) Feiyan Liang et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Genetic identification of factors for extracellular cellulose accumulation in the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus vulcanus : proposal of a novel tripartite secretion system

(2018) Kaisei Maeda et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Disruption of polyhydroxybutyrate synthesis redirects carbon flow towards glycogen synthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 overexpressing glgC/glgA

(2018) Velmurugan Rajendran et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Rerouting of Metabolism into Desired Cellular Products by Nutrient Stress: Fluxes Reveal the Selected Pathways in Cyanobacterial Photosynthesis

(2018) Xiao Qian et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Glycogen Synthesis and Metabolite Overflow Contribute to Energy Balancing in Cyanobacteria

(2018) Melissa Cano et al.   Cell Reports

Potential new genera of cyanobacterial strains isolated from thermal springs of western Sichuan, China

(2018) Jie Tang et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

The primary transcriptome of the fast-growing cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973

(2018) Xiaoming Tan et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances: Ecological Function and Impact on Soil Aggregation

(2018) Ohana Y. A. Costa et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil Type and Cyanobacteria Species Influence the Macromolecular and Chemical Characteristics of the Polysaccharidic Matrix in Induced Biocrusts

(2018) Sonia Chamizo et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Arsenic biotransformation by a cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. PCC 7120

(2017) Xi-Mei Xue et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Genetic engineering of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 for poly-β-hydroxybutyrate overproduction

(2017) Roberta Carpine et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

FabG can function as PhaB for poly-3-hydroxybutyrate biosynthesis in photosynthetic cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2017) Haowei Zhang et al.   Bioengineered

Culturing Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803 with N2and CO2in a Diel Regime Reveals Multiphase Glycogen Dynamics with Low Maintenance Costs

(2016) S. Andreas Angermayr et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Enhancement of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by overexpression of its native biosynthetic genes

(2016) Wanthanee Khetkorn et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Cyanobacterial metabolic engineering for biofuel and chemical production

(2016) Neal J Oliver et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Progress and challenges in producing polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers from cyanobacteria

(2016) Akhilesh Kumar Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

CRISPR-Cas9 for the genome engineering of cyanobacteria and succinate production

(2016) Hung Li et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Effects of overexpressing photosynthetic carbon flux control enzymes in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803

(2016) Feiyan Liang et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) for gene regulation and succinate production in cyanobacterium S. elongatus PCC 7942

(2016) Chun-Hung Huang et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Unique attributes of cyanobacterial metabolism revealed by improved genome-scale metabolic modeling and essential gene analysis

(2016) Jared T. Broddrick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Factors Altering Pyruvate Excretion in a Glycogen Storage Mutant of the Cyanobacterium, Synechococcus PCC7942

(2016) Phoebe J. Benson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Natural and Synthetic Variants of the Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Cyanobacteria: Introduction of the GABA Shunt into Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

(2016) Shuyi Zhang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Photoautotrophic Polyhydroxybutyrate Granule Formation Is Regulated by Cyanobacterial Phasin PhaP in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803

(2015) Waldemar Hauf et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Alteration of cyanobacterial sugar and amino acid metabolism by overexpressionhik8, encoding a KaiC-associated histidine kinase

(2015) Takashi Osanai et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biochemical Validation of the Glyoxylate Cycle in the CyanobacteriumChlorogloeopsis fritschiiStrain PCC 9212

(2015) Shuyi Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structure and Effects of Cyanobacterial Lipopolysaccharides

(2015) Prasannavenkatesh Durai et al.   Marine Drugs

Metabolic engineering of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 to produce poly-3-hydroxybutyrate and poly-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate

(2015) Shuyi Zhang et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973, a fast growing cyanobacterial chassis for biosynthesis using light and CO2

(2015) Jingjie Yu et al.   Scientific Reports

Phylum-wide analysis of genes/proteins related to the last steps of assembly and export of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in cyanobacteria

(2015) Sara B. Pereira et al.   Scientific Reports

Multiple Gene Repression in Cyanobacteria Using CRISPRi

(2015) Lun Yao et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Comparative metabolomic analysis of the effects of light quality on polysaccharide production of cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme

(2015) Pei-pei Han et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

Bacterial exopolysaccharides: biosynthesis pathways and engineering strategies

(2015) Jochen Schmid et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

High-yield production of extracellular type-I cellulose by the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

(2015) Chi Zhao et al.   Cell Discovery

Respiration accumulates Calvin cycle intermediates for the rapid start of photosynthesis inSynechocystissp. PCC 6803

(2014) Ginga Shimakawa et al.   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Synthesis of bacterial polysaccharides via the Wzx/Wzy-dependent pathway

(2014) Salim T. Islam et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Carbon sink removal: Increased photosynthetic production of lactic acid by Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 in a glycogen storage mutant

(2014) Aniek D. van der Woude et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Effects of light intensity on components and topographical structures of extracellular polysaccharides from the cyanobacteria Nostoc sp.

(2014) Hongmei Ge et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Isobutanol production as an alternative metabolic sink to rescue the growth deficiency of the glycogen mutant of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

(2014) Xiaoqian Li et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Modulating energy arriving at photochemical reaction centers: orange carotenoid protein-related photoprotection and state transitions

(2014) Diana Kirilovsky   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Pathway-Level Acceleration of Glycogen Catabolism by a Response Regulator in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Species PCC 6803

(2014) T. Osanai et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Glycogen Synthase Isoforms in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803: Identification of Different Roles to Produce Glycogen by Targeted Mutagenesis

(2014) Sang-Ho Yoo et al.   PLoS One

The c-di-GMP recognition mechanism of the PilZ domain of bacterial cellulose synthase subunit A

(2013) Takaaki Fujiwara et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Increased Bioplastic Production with an RNA Polymerase Sigma Factor SigE during Nitrogen Starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2013) T. Osanai et al.   DNA RESEARCH

Natural osmolytes are much less effective substrates than glycogen for catabolic energy production in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002

(2013) L. Tiago Guerra et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Engineering of photosynthetic mannitol biosynthesis from CO2 in a cyanobacterium

(2013) Jacob H. Jacobsen et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Flux Balance Analysis of Cyanobacterial Metabolism: The Metabolic Network of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2013) Henning Knoop et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Glycogen synthesis is a required component of the nitrogen stress response in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

(2013) Jason W. Hickman et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

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

The unique nucleotide specificity of the sucrose synthase fromThermosynechococcus elongatus

(2012) Carlos M. Figueroa et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Post-translational control of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria

(2012) O. Czarnecki et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Altered carbohydrate metabolism in glycogen synthase mutants of Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002: Cell factories for soluble sugars

(2012) Yu Xu et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

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

Synthase-dependent exopolysaccharide secretion in Gram-negative bacteria

(2012) J.C. Whitney et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Unusual cyanobacterial TCA cycles: not broken just different

(2012) Dirk Steinhauser et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å

(2011) Yasufumi Umena et al.   NATURE

One-step plasmid construction for generation of knock-out mutants in cyanobacteria: studies of glycogen metabolism in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

(2011) Jacob H. Jacobsen et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Cellulose Accumulation and a Cellulose Synthase Gene are Responsible for Cell Aggregation in the Cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus vulcanus RKN

(2011) Yusuke Kawano et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Phage auxiliary metabolic genes and the redirection of cyanobacterial host carbon metabolism

(2011) L. R. Thompson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Cyanobacteria

(2011) S. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Carbohydrate Metabolism in Mutants of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 Defective in Glycogen Synthesis

(2010) E. Suzuki et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Metabolic Network of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Systemic Properties of Autotrophic Growth

(2010) Henning Knoop et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Simultaneous effect of irradiance and temperature on biochemical composition of the microalga Pavlova lutheri

(2009) Ana P. Carvalho et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Pivotal Roles of the Outer Membrane Polysaccharide Export and Polysaccharide Copolymerase Protein Families in Export of Extracellular Polysaccharides in Gram-Negative Bacteria

(2009) L. Cuthbertson et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Mechanism of downregulation of photosystem I content under high-light conditions in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2009) M. Muramatsu et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Applications of cyanobacteria in biotechnology

(2008) R.M.M. Abed et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Combined effect of temperature and light intensity on growth and extracellular polymeric substance production by the cyanobacterium Arthrospira platensis

(2008) Lamia Trabelsi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

NblA, a Key Protein of Phycobilisome Degradation, Interacts with ClpC, a HSP100 Chaperone Partner of a Cyanobacterial Clp Protease

(2008) Anne Karradt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Sequence-structure relationships in polysaccharide co-polymerase (PCP) proteins

(2008) Renato Morona et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES