Carbon recycling by cyanobacteria: improving CO2 fixation through chemical production

Angela Zhang¹, Austin L Carroll¹, Shota Atsumi¹

¹Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

|September 7, 2017

Abstract:

Atmospheric CO2 levels have reached an alarming level due to industrialization and the burning of fossil fuels. In order to lower the level of atmospheric carbon, strategies to sequester excess carbon need to be implemented. The CO2-fixing mechanism in photosynthetic organisms enables integration of atmospheric CO2 into biomass. Additionally, through exogenous metabolic pathways in these photosynthetic organisms, fixed CO2 can be routed to produce various commodity chemicals that are currently produced from petroleum. This review will highlight studies and modifications to different components of cyanobacterial CO2-fixing systems, as well as the application of these systems toward CO2-derived chemical production. 2,3-Butanediol is given particular focus as one of the most thoroughly studied systems for conversion of CO2 to a bioproduct.

Keywords:

CO2 fixation Cyanobacteria metabolic engineering

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