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    Unlocking the potentials of cyanobacterial photosynthesis for directly converting carbon dioxide into glucose

    Glucose is the most abundant monosaccharide, serving as an essential energy source for cells in all domains of life and as an important feedstock for the biorefinery industry. The plant-biomass-sugar route dom...

    Shanshan Zhang, Jiahui Sun, Dandan Feng, Huili Sun, **yu Cui in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Engineered hypermutation adapts cyanobacterial photosynthesis to combined high light and high temperature stress

    Photosynthesis can be impaired by combined high light and high temperature (HLHT) stress. Obtaining HLHT tolerant photoautotrophs is laborious and time-consuming, and in most cases the underlying molecular mec...

    Huili Sun, Guodong Luan, Yifan Ma, Wen**g Lou, Rongze Chen in Nature Communications (2023)

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    A miniaturized bionic ocean-battery mimicking the structure of marine microbial ecosystems

    Marine microbial ecosystems can be viewed as a huge ocean-battery charged by solar energy. It provides a model for fabricating bio-solar cell, a bioelectrochemical system that converts light into electricity. ...

    Huawei Zhu, Liru Xu, Guodong Luan, Tao Zhan, Zepeng Kang in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Engineering Cyanobacteria Cell Factories for Photosynthetic Production of Sucrose

    Biorefinery technology serves as an important alternative route to alleviate the energy and environmental crisis and to promote sustainable development. The sufficient supply of sugar feedstocks is the basis a...

    Shanshan Zhang, Huili Sun, Jiahui Sun in Ecophysiology and Biochemistry of Cyanobac… (2021)

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    Rescuing ethanol photosynthetic production of cyanobacteria in non-sterilized outdoor cultivations with a bicarbonate-based pH-rising strategy

    Ethanol photosynthetic production based on cyanobacteria cell factories utilizing CO2 and solar energy provides an attractive solution for sustainable production of green fuels. However, the scaling up processes ...

    Zhi Zhu, Guodong Luan, **aoming Tan, Haocui Zhang, Xuefeng Lu in Biotechnology for Biofuels (2017)

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    Combinatory strategy for characterizing and understanding the ethanol synthesis pathway in cyanobacteria cell factories

    Photosynthetic production of chemicals and fuels by recycling CO2 in cyanobacteria is a promising solution facing energy shortage and resource declination. Ethanol is an attractive and demonstrative biofuel produ...

    Guodong Luan, Yun**g Qi, Min Wang, Zhimin Li, Yangkai Duan in Biotechnology for Biofuels (2015)

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    Develo** controllable hypermutable Clostridium cells through manipulating its methyl-directed mismatch repair system

    Development of controllable hypermutable cells can greatly benefit understanding and harnessing microbial evolution. However, there have not been any similar systems developed for Clostridium, an important bacter...

    Guodong Luan, Zhen Cai, Fuyu Gong, Hongjun Dong, Zhao Lin, Yan** Zhang in Protein & Cell (2013)

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    Genome replication engineering assisted continuous evolution (GREACE) to improve microbial tolerance for biofuels production

    Microbial production of biofuels requires robust cell growth and metabolism under tough conditions. Conventionally, such tolerance phenotypes were engineered through evolutionary engineering using the principl...

    Guodong Luan, Zhen Cai, Yin Li, Yanhe Ma in Biotechnology for Biofuels (2013)