Deciphering and engineering photosynthetic cyanobacteria for heavy metal bioremediation.

Environmental pollution caused by heavy metals has received worldwide attentions due to their ubiquity, poor degradability and easy bioaccumulation in host cells. As one potential solution, photosynthetic cyanobacteria have been considered as promising remediation chassis and widely applied in various bioremediation processes of heavy-metals. Meanwhile, deciphering resistant mechanisms and constructing tolerant chassis towards heavy metals could greatly contribute to the successful application of the cyanobacteria-based bioremediation in the future. In this review, first we summarized recent application of cyanobacteria in heavy metals bioremediation using either live or dead cells. Second, resistant mechanisms and strategies for enhancing cyanobacterial bioremediation of heavy metals were discussed. Finally, potential challenges and perspectives for improving bioremediation of heavy metals by cyanobacteria were presented. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Jinyu Cui, Yaru Xie, Tao Sun, Lei Chen, Weiwen Zhang. Deciphering and engineering photosynthetic cyanobacteria for heavy metal bioremediation. The Science of the total environment. 2021 Mar 20;761:144111

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