Year: 2024
Type: review
Abstract: The looming climate crisis has prompted an ever‐growing interest in cyanobacteria due to their potential as sustainable production platforms for the synthesis of energy carriers and value‐added chemicals from CO2 and sunlight. Nonetheless, cyanobacteria are yet to compete with heterotrophic systems in terms of space‐time yields and consequently production costs. One major drawback leading to the low production performance observed in cyanobacteria is the limited ability to utilize the full capacity of the photosynthetic apparatus and its associated systems, i.e. CO2 fixation and the directly connected metabolism. In this review, novel insights into various levels of metabolic regulation of cyanobacteria are discussed, including the potential of targeting these regulatory mechanisms to create a chassis with a phenotype favorable for photoautotrophic production. Compared to conventional metabolic engineering approaches, minor perturbations of regulatory mechanisms can have wide‐ranging effects.
Source: Physiologia Plantarum
DOI: 10.1111/ppl.14316
Institutions: Uppsala University, University of Copenhagen
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,950
Awards: G2612742674, G4131636167, G6911522833
OpenAlex ID: W4396519478