Synthetic metabolic pathways for photobiological conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbon fuel
Ian Sofian Yunus, Julian Wichmann, Robin Wördenweber, Kyle J. Lauersen, Olaf Kruse, Patrik Raymond Jones
This paper engineers synthetic metabolic pathways in photosynthetic microorganisms to convert CO2 into hydrocarbon fuels, achieving up to 19-fold and 8-fold increases in alkane and alkene yields in cyanobacteria and algae, respectively.
Metabolic Engineering · Aug 22, 2018Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology