Harnessing the power of microbial autotrophy

Cyanobacterial chassis engineering for enhancing production of biofuels and chemicals

(2016) Xinyan Gao et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Formate Assimilation: The Metabolic Architecture of Natural and Synthetic Pathways

(2016) Arren Bar-Even   BIOCHEMISTRY

Distribution and dynamics of electron transport complexes in cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes

(2016) Lu-Ning Liu   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Carbon recovery by fermentation of CO-rich off gases – Turning steel mills into biorefineries

(2016) Bastian Molitor et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Sugar Synthesis from CO2 in Escherichia coli

(2016) Niv Antonovsky et al.   CELL

The formate bio-economy

(2016) Oren Yishai et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Functional metagenomic selection of ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from uncultivated bacteria

(2016) Vanessa A. Varaljay et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Expression of holo -proteorhodopsin in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2016) Que Chen et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

2,3 Butanediol production in an obligate photoautotrophic cyanobacterium in dark conditions via diverse sugar consumption

(2016) Jordan T. McEwen et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Acetone production with metabolically engineered strains of Acetobacterium woodii

(2016) Sabrina Hoffmeister 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

Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity

(2016) Michael J. Smanski et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Fuelling the future: microbial engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels

(2016) James C. Liao et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Global characterization of in vivo enzyme catalytic rates and their correspondence to in vitrokcatmeasurements

(2016) Dan Davidi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water splitting–biosynthetic system with CO2reduction efficiencies exceeding photosynthesis

(2016) Chong Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Integrated In Silico Analysis of Pathway Designs for Synthetic Photo-Electro-Autotrophy

(2016) Michael Volpers et al.   PLoS One

Screening and Engineering the Synthetic Potential of Carboxylating Reductases from Central Metabolism and Polyketide Biosynthesis

(2015) Dominik M. Peter et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Engineering the iron-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for biochemical production

(2015) Timothy Kernan et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Experimental evidence for growth advantage and metabolic shift stimulated by photophosphorylation of proteorhodopsin expressed inEscherichia coliat anaerobic condition

(2015) Ying Wang et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Quantitative analysis of an engineered CO2-fixing Escherichia coli reveals great potential of heterotrophic CO2 fixation

(2015) Fuyu Gong et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Synthetic scaffolds for pathway enhancement

(2015) Ka-Hei Siu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Screening and modular design for metabolic pathway optimization

(2015) Jason T Boock et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

C1-carbon sources for chemical and fuel production by microbial gas fermentation

(2015) Peter Dürre et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Acetogenic mixotrophy: novel options for yield improvement in biofuels and biochemicals production

(2015) Alan G Fast et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Synthetic methylotrophy: engineering the production of biofuels and chemicals based on the biology of aerobic methanol utilization

(2015) William B Whitaker et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Installing extra bicarbonate transporters in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 enhances biomass production

(2015) Nina A. Kamennaya et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Metabolic engineering in chemolithoautotrophic hosts for the production of fuels and chemicals

(2015) S. Eric Nybo et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Engineering Escherichia coli for methanol conversion

(2015) Jonas E.N. Müller et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Metabolic engineering in methanotrophic bacteria

(2015) Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Nanowire–Bacteria Hybrids for Unassisted Solar Carbon Dioxide Fixation to Value-Added Chemicals

(2015) Chong Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Opposing effects of folding and assembly chaperones on evolvability of Rubisco

(2015) Paulo Durão et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Streamlined Construction of the Cyanobacterial CO2-Fixing Organelle via Protein Domain Fusions for Use in Plant Synthetic Biology

(2015) C. Raul Gonzalez-Esquer et al.   PLANT CELL

Exploring exocytosis using chemical genomics

(2015) Anirban Baral et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Efficient solar-to-fuels production from a hybrid microbial–water-splitting catalyst system

(2015) Joseph P. Torella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

(2015) Donald R. Ort et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-photosensitization of nonphotosynthetic bacteria for solar-to-chemical production

(2015) K. K. Sakimoto et al.   SCIENCE

Metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria for the synthesis of commodity products

(2015) S. Andreas Angermayr et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Refactoring the Six-Gene Photosystem II Core in the Chloroplast of the Green Algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2015) Javier A. Gimpel et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Genome Engineering in Cyanobacteria: Where We Are and Where We Need To Go

(2015) C. Josh Ramey et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Pathways and Bioenergetics of Anaerobic Carbon Monoxide Fermentation

(2015) Martijn Diender et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

In Metabolic Engineering of Eukaryotic Microalgae: Potential and Challenges Come with Great Diversity

(2015) Javier A. Gimpel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Cyanobacterial photo-driven mixotrophic metabolism and its advantages for biosynthesis

(2015) Ni Wan et al.   Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering

Electroactive bacteria—molecular mechanisms and genetic tools

(2014) Anne Sydow et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

BioBrickTM compatible vector system for protein expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

(2014) Ilya B. Tikh et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Maximizing photosynthetic efficiency and culture productivity in cyanobacteria upon minimizing the phycobilisome light-harvesting antenna size

(2014) Henning Kirst et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

A process economic assessment of hydrocarbon biofuels production using chemoautotrophic organisms

(2014) Nymul E. Khan et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Exploring metabolic engineering design principles for the photosynthetic production of lactic acid by Synechocystis sp. PCC6803

(2014) S Angermayr et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Integrating Biological Redesign: Where Synthetic Biology Came From and Where It Needs to Go

(2014) Jeffrey C. Way et al.   CELL

Engineering microbial electrocatalysis for chemical and fuel production

(2014) Miriam A Rosenbaum et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Trash to treasure: production of biofuels and commodity chemicals via syngas fermenting microorganisms

(2014) Haythem Latif et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microbial nanowires for bioenergy applications

(2014) Nikhil S Malvankar et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Introduction of a Synthetic CO2-fixing Photorespiratory Bypass into a Cyanobacterium

(2014) Patrick M. Shih et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Selective enhancement of autotrophic acetate production with genetically modified Acetobacterium woodii

(2014) Melanie Straub et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Autotrophy at the thermodynamic limit of life: a model for energy conservation in acetogenic bacteria

(2014) Kai Schuchmann et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A Tale of Two Reductases: Extending the Bacteriochlorophyll Biosynthetic Pathway in E. coli

(2014) Ilya B. Tikh et al.   PLoS One

Building carbon–carbon bonds using a biocatalytic methanol condensation cycle

(2014) Igor W. Bogorad et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea use the most energy-efficient aerobic pathway for CO2 fixation

(2014) M. Konneke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Converting Carbon Dioxide to Butyrate with an Engineered Strain of Clostridium ljungdahlii

(2014) T. Ueki et al.   mBio

Pathway Thermodynamics Highlights Kinetic Obstacles in Central Metabolism

(2014) Elad Noor et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Development of an activity-directed selection system enabled significant improvement of the carboxylation efficiency of Rubisco

(2014) Zhen Cai et al.   Protein & Cell

The Mtr Pathway of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Couples Substrate Utilization to Current Production in Escherichia coli

(2014) Michaela A. TerAvest et al.   ChemElectroChem

Clostridium acidurici Electron-Bifurcating Formate Dehydrogenase

(2013) Shuning Wang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial-based membrane protein production

(2013) Susan Schlegel et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Carbon dioxide fixation by Calvin-Cycle enzymes improves ethanol yield in yeast

(2013) Víctor Guadalupe-Medina et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Electrobiocommodities: powering microbial production of fuels and commodity chemicals from carbon dioxide with electricity

(2013) Derek R Lovley et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Potential of industrial biotechnology with cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae

(2013) René H Wijffels et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Biological conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels and industrial chemicals

(2013) Aaron S Hawkins et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Expression of the sub-pathways of the Chloroflexus aurantiacus 3-hydroxypropionate carbon fixation bicycle in E. coli: Toward horizontal transfer of autotrophic growth

(2013) Matthew d. Mattozzi et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

A reverse glyoxylate shunt to build a non-native route from C4 to C2 in Escherichia coli

(2013) Samuel E. Mainguet et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Development of a broad-host synthetic biology toolbox for ralstonia eutropha and its application to engineering hydrocarbon biofuel production

(2013) Changhao Bi et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Cyanobacterial conversion of carbon dioxide to 2,3-butanediol

(2013) John W. K. Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploiting microbial hyperthermophilicity to produce an industrial chemical, using hydrogen and carbon dioxide

(2013) M. W. Keller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Potential of proton-pumping rhodopsins: engineering photosystems into microorganisms

(2013) Nico J. Claassens et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Tuning Promoter Strengths for Improved Synthesis and Function of Electron Conduits in Escherichia coli

(2013) Cheryl P. Goldbeck et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology of cyanobacteria: unique challenges and opportunities

(2013) Bertram M. Berla et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Association with an Ammonium-Excreting Bacterium Allows Diazotrophic Culture of Oil-Rich Eukaryotic Microalgae

(2012) Juan Cesar Federico Ortiz-Marquez et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rerouting Carbon Flux To Enhance Photosynthetic Productivity

(2012) Daniel C. Ducat et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Studies on the production of branched-chain alcohols in engineered Ralstonia eutropha

(2012) Jingnan Lu et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Thermodynamic constraints shape the structure of carbon fixation pathways

(2012) Arren Bar-Even et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Energy conservation via electron bifurcating ferredoxin reduction and proton/Na+ translocating ferredoxin oxidation

(2012) Wolfgang Buckel et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Design and analysis of metabolic pathways supporting formatotrophic growth for electricity-dependent cultivation of microbes

(2012) Arren Bar-Even et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Pathway engineering strategies for production of beneficial carotenoids in microbial hosts

(2012) Victor M. Ye et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Improving carbon fixation pathways

(2012) Daniel C Ducat et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Pathway engineering and synthetic biology using acetogens

(2012) Bettina Schiel-Bengelsdorf et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Improved production of biohydrogen in light-powered Escherichia coli by co-expression of proteorhodopsin and heterologous hydrogenase

(2012) Jaoon YH Kim et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Integrated Electromicrobial Conversion of CO2 to Higher Alcohols

(2012) H. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Bioenergetics of photoheterotrophic bacteria in the oceans

(2012) David L. Kirchman et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Stoichiometric and energetic analyses of non-photosynthetic CO2-fixation pathways to support synthetic biology strategies for production of fuels and chemicals

(2012) Alan G Fast et al.   Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering

Sugarcane as an energy source

(2012) Manoel Regis L. V. Leal et al.   Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery

Ecological Aspects of the Distribution of Different Autotrophic CO2Fixation Pathways

(2011) Ivan A. Berg   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Carboxylases in Natural and Synthetic Microbial Pathways

(2011) Tobias J. Erb   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Adaptive laboratory evolution—harnessing the power of biology for metabolic engineering

(2011) Vasiliy A Portnoy et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Application of hyperthermophiles and their enzymes

(2011) Haruyuki Atomi et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

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

A survey of carbon fixation pathways through a quantitative lens

(2011) Arren Bar-Even et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Computation of metabolic fluxes and efficiencies for biological carbon dioxide fixation

(2011) Nanette R. Boyle et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Parts plus pipes: Synthetic biology approaches to metabolic engineering

(2011) Patrick M. Boyle et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

In silico characterization of microbial electrosynthesis for metabolic engineering of biochemicals

(2011) Aditya V Pandit et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

eQuilibrator--the biochemical thermodynamics calculator

(2011) A. Flamholz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Modularity of a carbon-fixing protein organelle

(2011) W. Bonacci 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

Microbial production of bulk chemicals: development of anaerobic processes

(2011) Ruud A. Weusthuis et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis

(2011) Min Chen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Extremely Thermophilic Routes to Microbial Electrofuels

(2011) Aaron S. Hawkins et al.   ACS Catalysis

Alternative Pathways of Carbon Dioxide Fixation: Insights into the Early Evolution of Life?

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield

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

Enhancement of Survival and Electricity Production in an Engineered Bacterium by Light-Driven Proton Pumping

(2010) E. T. Johnson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

NADP+ Reduction with Reduced Ferredoxin and NADP+ Reduction with NADH Are Coupled via an Electron-Bifurcating Enzyme Complex in Clostridium kluyveri

(2010) S. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

What is flux balance analysis?

(2010) Jeffrey D Orth et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Autotrophic carbon fixation in archaea

(2010) Ivan A. Berg et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial electrosynthesis — revisiting the electrical route for microbial production

(2010) Korneel Rabaey et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Clostridium ljungdahlii represents a microbial production platform based on syngas

(2010) M. Kopke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Engineering of a synthetic electron conduit in living cells

(2010) H. M. Jensen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

An Outlook on Microalgal Biofuels

(2010) R. H. Wijffels et al.   SCIENCE

The Expanding World of Methylotrophic Metabolism

(2009) Ludmila Chistoserdova et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Improvement of light to biomass conversion by de-regulation of light-harvesting protein translation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2009) J. Beckmann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Direct photosynthetic recycling of carbon dioxide to isobutyraldehyde

(2009) Shota Atsumi et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Carboxylation mechanism and stereochemistry of crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase, a carboxylating enoyl-thioester reductase

(2009) T. J. Erb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolving improvedSynechococcusRubisco functional expression inEscherichia coli

(2008) Oliver Mueller-Cajar et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL