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SUBMITTER: Carbonell V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6536634 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carbonell Veronica V Vuorio Eerika E Aro Eva-Mari EM Kallio Pauli P
World journal of microbiology & biotechnology 20190508 5
Ethylene is a volatile alkene which is used in large commercial scale as a precursor in plastic industry, and is currently derived from petroleum refinement. As an alternative production strategy, photoautotrophic cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 have been previously evaluated as potential biotechnological hosts for producing ethylene directly from CO<sub>2</sub>, by the over-expression of ethylene forming enzyme (efe) from Pseudomonas syringae. This ...[more]