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Conversion of Escherichia coli to Generate All Biomass Carbon from CO2.
Cell - 27 Nov 2019
Gleizer Shmuel, Ben-Nissan Roee, Bar-On Yinon M, Antonovsky Niv, Noor Elad, Zohar Yehudit, Jona Ghil, Krieger Eyal, Shamshoum Melina, Bar-Even Arren, Milo Ron
Abstract excerpt
The living world is largely divided into autotrophs that convert CO2 into biomass and heterotrophs that consume organic compounds. In spite of widespread interest in renewable energy storage and more sustainable food production, the engineering of industrially relevant heterotrophic model organisms to use CO2 as their sole carbon source has so far remained an outstanding challenge. Here, we report the achievement...
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