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CyanoFactory Publications – A collaborate research project for design, construction and demonstration of solar biofuel production using novel (photo)synthetic cell factories.

• CYANOBACTERIAL HYDROGENASES
  • Khanna N & Lindblad P (2015) Cyanobacterial Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Metabolism Revisited: Recent Progress and Future Prospects. Int J Mol Sci 16:10537-10561 WEB
  • Pacheco CC, Oliveira P & Tamagnini P (2014) H2 production using cyanobacteria/cyanobacterial hydrogenases: from classical to synthetic biology approaches. In: Zannoni D & De Phillipis R (eds.) Microbial BioEnergy: Hydrogen Production, Springer, USA, 38:79-99 (ISBN-978-94-017-8553-2)

• TOOLBOX FOR CYANOBACTERIAL SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
  • Huang H-H, Seeger C, Danielson UH & Lindblad P (2015) Analysis of the leakage of gene expression by an artificial TetR-regulated promoter in cyanobacteria. BMC Res Notes 8:459 WEB
  • Camsund D & Lindblad P (2014) Engineered transcriptional systems for cyanobacterial biotechnology. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2:40 WEB
  • Camsund D, Heidorn T & Lindblad P (2014) Engineering of LacI-repressed promoters and DNA-looping in a cyanobacterium. J Biol Eng 8:4 WEB
  • Huang H-H & Lindblad P (2013) Wide-dynamic-range promoters engineered for cyanobacteria. J Biol Eng 7:10 WEB

• IMPROVEMENT OF CHASSIS GROWTH, FUNCTIONALITY AND ROBUSTNESS
  • Pinto F, Pacheco CC, Oliveira P, Montagud A, Landels A, Couto N, Wright PC, Urchueguía JV & Tamagnini P (2015) Improving a Synechocystis-based photoautotrophic chassis through systematic genome mapping and validation of neutral sites DNA Res WEB PDF
  • Oliveira P, Pinto F, Pacheco CC, Mota R & Tamagnini P (2015) HesF, an exoprotein required for filament adhesion and aggregation in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. Environ Microbiol 17(5):1631-48. WEB
  • Ekman M, Sandh G, Nenninger A, Oliveira P & Stensjö K (2014) Cellular and functional specificity among ferritin-like proteins in the multicellular cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme. Environ Microbiol 16(3):829-844 WEB

• METABOLIC MODELLING OF THE ENGINEERED CELLS
  • Triana J, Montagud A, Siurana M, Fuente D, Urchueguía A, Gamermann D, Torres J, Tena J, Fernández de Córdoba P & Urchueguía JF (2014) Generation and Evaluation of a Genome-Scale Metabolic Network Model of Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942. Metabolites 4:680-698
  • Gamermann D, Montagud A, Jaime Infante RA, Triana J, Fernández de Córdoba P & Urchueguía JF (2014) PyNetMet : Python tools for efficient work with networks and metabolic models. Comput. Math. Biol. 3:1-11
  • Gamermann D, Montagud A, Conejero JA, Urchueguía JF & de Córdoba, PF (2014) New Approach for Phylogenetic Tree Recovery Based on Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks. J. Comput. Biol. 21:1-12
  • Montagud A, Gamermann D, Fernández de Córdoba P, Urchueguía JF (2013) Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 metabolic models for the enhanced production of hydrogen. Crit Rev Biotechnol 8551:1-15 WEB

• DATA WAREHOUSE / BIOINFORMATICS
  • Wünschiers R (2016) Making-of Synthetic Biology: The European CyanoFactory Research Consortium. In: Hagen K, Engelhard M & Toepfer G (Eds.) Ambivalences of Creating Life – Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology, pp. 55-72; ISBN: 978-3-319-21087-2; Springer Berlin, Heidelberg WEB
  • Zuchantke E, Kind G & Wünschiers R (2015) Protein Interaction Network Analysis and Visualization of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. In: Knaut M, Tagungsband der 16. Nachwuchswissenschaftlerkonferenz (pp. 257-261). Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8305-2044-3
  • Kind G, Zuchantke E & Wünschiers R (2015) CyanoFactory Knowledge Base – A web-based tool for analysis and visualization of experimental data. In: Knaut M, Tagungsband der 16. Nachwuchswissenschaftlerkonferenz (pp. 187-191). Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8305-2044-3
  • Kind G, Zuchantke E & Wünschiers R (2015) CyanoFactory Knowledge Base & Synthetic Biology: A Plea for Human Curated Bio-databases. In: Pastor O, Sinoquet C, Fred A, Gamboa H, & Elias D, 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (pp. 237-242). Lisboa/Portugal, ISBN 978-989-758-070-3

• ASSEMBLY AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF A LARGER PROTOTYPE PHOTOBIOREACTOR SYSTEM
  • Sáenz ME, Bišová K, Touloupakis E, Faraloni C, Di Marzio WD & Torzillo G (2015) Evidences of oxidative stress during hydrogen photoproduction in sulfur-deprived cultures of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Int J Hydrogen Energy 40:10410-10417 WEB
  • Touloupakis E, Cicchi B & Torsello G (2015) A bioenergetic assessment of photosynthetic growth of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in continuous cultures Biotech Biofuels 8:133 WEB
  • Touloupakis E, Cicchi B , Benavides AMS, Tortilla G (2015) Effect of high pH on growth of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 cultures and their contamination by golden algae (Poterioochromonas sp.) Appl Microbial Biotech PDF

• BIOSAFETY
  • Klemenčič, Marina, Novinec, Marko, Dolinar, Marko (2015) Orthocaspases are proteolytically active prokaryotic caspase homologues: the case of Microcystis aeruginosa. Molecular microbiology 98(1), 142-150. WEB
  • Klemenčič, Marina, Dolinar, Marko (2016) Orthocaspase and toxin-antitoxin loci rubbing shoulders in the genome of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806. Current genetics (in press) WEB
  • Čelešnik, Helena, Tanšek. Anja, Tahirović, Aneja, Vižintin, Angelika, Mustar, Jernej, Vidmar, Vita, Dolinar, Marko (2016) Biosafety of biotechnologically important microalgae: intrinsic suicide switch implementation in cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biology Open (advance publication) WEB