The Synthetic Biology Toolkit for Photosynthetic Microorganisms

Konstantinos Vavitsas; Pierre Crozet; Marcos Hamborg Vinde; Fiona Davies; Stéphane D Lemaire; Claudia E Vickers

doi:10.1104/pp.19.00345

The Synthetic Biology Toolkit for Photosynthetic Microorganisms

Plant Physiol. 2019 Sep;181(1):14-27. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00345. Epub 2019 Jul 1.

Authors

Konstantinos Vavitsas^{1

2}, Pierre Crozet³, Marcos Hamborg Vinde^{1

2}, Fiona Davies⁴, Stéphane D Lemaire³, Claudia E Vickers^{5

2}

Affiliations

¹ Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
² Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, CSIRO Land & Water, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia.
³ Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8226, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401.
⁵ Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia c.vickers@uq.edu.au.

Abstract

Photosynthetic microorganisms offer novel characteristics as synthetic biology chassis, and the toolbox of components and techniques for cyanobacteria and algae is rapidly increasing.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / genetics*
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / physiology
Cyanobacteria / genetics*
Cyanobacteria / physiology
Diatoms / genetics*
Diatoms / physiology
Gene Editing
Photosynthesis*
Promoter Regions, Genetic / genetics
Synechocystis / genetics
Synechocystis / physiology
Synthetic Biology / methods*