Synthetic Biology of Cyanobacteria

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This volume highlights recent breakthroughs in the interdisciplinary areas of synthetic biology, metabolic engineering and bioprocess engineering for the production of green chemicals. It also presents practical experimental and computational tools for the design, construction and manipulation of cyanobacteria cell factories. The respective contributions cover new technologies in the field, such as novel genetic transformation techniques and bioinformatics analysis methods and address various aspects of cyanobacterial synthetic biology, offering a valuable resource for students and researchers in the fields of industry microbiology and biomedical engineering. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Challenges in the Application of Synthetic Biology Toward Synthesis of Commodity Products by Cyanobacteria via “Direct Conversion” (Wei Du, Patricia Caicedo Burbano, Klaas J. Hellingwerf, Filipe Branco dos Santos)....Pages 3-26 Transporters Related to Stress Responses and Their Potential Application in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (Yaru Xie, Lei Chen, Tao Sun, Yanan Zhang, Ting Li, Xinyu Song et al.)....Pages 27-53 Discovery and Application of Stress-Responsive sRNAs in Cyanobacteria (Tao Sun, Guangsheng Pei, Xinyu Song, Lei Chen, Weiwen Zhang)....Pages 55-74 Photoresponse Mechanism in Cyanobacteria: Key Factor in Photoautotrophic Chassis (Jiao Zhan, Qiang Wang)....Pages 75-96 Production of Industrial Chemicals from CO2 by Engineering Cyanobacteria (Jie Zhou, Hengkai Meng, Wei Zhang, Yin Li)....Pages 97-116 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 Cyanobacterial Enzymes for Bioalkane Production (Munehito Arai, Yuuki Hayashi, Hisashi Kudo)....Pages 119-154 Production of Bioplastic Compounds by Genetically Manipulated and Metabolic Engineered Cyanobacteria (Noriaki Katayama, Hiroko Iijima, Takashi Osanai)....Pages 155-169 Rewiring of Cyanobacterial Metabolism for Hydrogen Production: Synthetic Biology Approaches and Challenges (Anagha Krishnan, Xiao Qian, Gennady Ananyev, Desmond S. Lun, G. Charles Dismukes)....Pages 171-213 Direct Photosynthetic Production of Plastic Building Block Chemicals from CO2 (Xinyu Song, Yunpeng Wang, Jinjin Diao, Shubin Li, Lei Chen, Weiwen Zhang)....Pages 215-238 Engineering Cyanobacteria for Photosynthetic Production of C3 Platform Chemicals and Terpenoids from CO2 (Jun Ni, Fei Tao, Ping Xu, Chen Yang)....Pages 239-259 Synthetic Biology Approaches to the Sustainable Production of p-Coumaric Acid and Its Derivatives in Cyanobacteria (Yong Xue, Qingfang He)....Pages 261-277 Front Matter ....Pages 279-279 Regulatory Tools for Controlling Gene Expression in Cyanobacteria (Gina C. Gordon, Brian F. Pfleger)....Pages 281-315 Synthetic Gene Regulation in Cyanobacteria (Cheryl M. Immethun, Tae Seok Moon)....Pages 317-355