Current advances in engineering cyanobacteria and their applications for photosynthetic butanol production.

Xufeng Liu, Hao Xie, Stamatina Roussou, Peter Lindblad

Current opinion in biotechnology 2022 Feb

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Cyanobacteria are natural photosynthetic microbes which can be engineered for sustainable conversion of solar energy and carbon dioxide into chemical products. Attempts to improve target production often require an improved understanding of the native cyanobacterial host system. Valuable insights into cyanobacterial metabolism, biochemistry and physiology have been steadily increasing in recent years, stimulating key advancements of cyanobacteria as cell factories for biochemical, including biofuel, production. In the present review, we summarize the current progress in engineering cyanobacteria and discuss the achieved and potential utilization of these advances in cyanobacteria for the production of the bulk chemical butanol, specifically isobutanol and 1-butanol. Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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Xufeng Liu, Hao Xie, Stamatina Roussou, Peter Lindblad. Current advances in engineering cyanobacteria and their applications for photosynthetic butanol production. Current opinion in biotechnology. 2022 Feb;73:143-150