Article
Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973, a fast growing cyanobacterial chassis for biosynthesis using light and CO₂.
Scientific reports - 30 Jan 2015
Yu Jingjie, Liberton Michelle, Cliften Paul F, Head Richard D, Jacobs Jon M, Smith Richard D, Koppenaal David W, Brand Jerry J, Pakrasi Himadri B
Abstract excerpt
Photosynthetic microbes are of emerging interest as production organisms in biotechnology because they can grow autotrophically using sunlight, an abundant energy source, and CO₂, a greenhouse gas. Important traits for such microbes are fast growth and amenability to genetic manipulation. Here we describe Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973, a unicellular cyanobacterium capable of rapid autotrophic growth,...
Topics
- Biosynthetic Pathways
- Carbon Dioxide
- Chromosome Mapping
- Genome, Bacterial
- INDEL Mutation
- Light
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Open Reading Frames
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Proteomics
- Synechococcus
- Time Factors