Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes

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A cobalt-porphyrin enzyme converts a fatty aldehyde to a hydrocarbon and CO.

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A Manganese(IV)/Iron(III) Cofactor in Chlamydia trachomatis Ribonucleotide Reductase

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Alkane biosynthesis by decarbonylation of aldehydes catalyzed by a particulate preparation from Pisum sativum.

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Molecular Characterization of the CER1 Gene of Arabidopsis Involved in Epicuticular Wax Biosynthesis and Pollen Fertility

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Biosynthesis of hydrocarbons in Anabaena variabilis. Incorporation of [methyl-14C] and [methyl-2H2] Methionine into 7- and 8-methyl-heptadecanes

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Microorganisms as hydrocarbon producers

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Genomic and Biochemical Studies Demonstrating the Absence of an Alkane-Producing Phenotype in Vibrio furnissii M1

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Biosynthesis of hydrocarbons by algae: Decarboxylation of stearic acid to N‐heptadecane inAnacystis nidulans determined by13C‐ and2H‐labeling and13C nuclear magnetic resonance

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Variability of Hydrocarbon and Fatty Acid Components in Cultures of the Filamentous Cyanobacterium Scytonema sp. Isolated from Microbial Community “Black Cover” of Limestone Walls in Jerusalem

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Microorganisms as hydrocarbon producers

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An engineered microbial platform for direct biofuel production from brown macroalgae

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Microalgae to Biofuels: ‘Promising’ Alternative and Renewable Energy, Review

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Bio-jet fuel conversion technologies

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Biofuels for a sustainable future

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Renewable energy from Cyanobacteria: energy production optimization by metabolic pathway engineering

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Multiple Gene Repression in Cyanobacteria Using CRISPRi

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Realizing the potential of synthetic biology

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Cyanobacteria: Promising biocatalysts for sustainable chemical production

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Microalgae Synthesize Hydrocarbons from Long-Chain Fatty Acids via a Light-Dependent Pathway

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Diversion of the Long-Chain Acyl-ACP Pool in Synechocystis to Fatty Alcohols through CRISPRi Repression of the Essential Phosphate Acyltransferase PlsX

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Revisiting metabolic engineering strategies for microbial synthesis of oleochemicals

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Novel Metabolic Attributes of the Genus <i>Cyanothece</i> , Comprising a Group of Unicellular Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria

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Recent advances in microbial production of fuels and chemicals using tools and strategies of systems metabolic engineering

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Directed evolution of an E. coli inner membrane transporter for improved efflux of biofuel molecules

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Recent advances in biofuel production through metabolic engineering

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Cyanobacterial Alkanes Modulate Photosynthetic Cyclic Electron Flow to Assist Growth under Cold Stress

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Microbial alkane production for jet fuel industry: Motivation, state of the art and perspectives

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Gene transfer in Leptolyngbya sp. strain BL0902, a cyanobacterium suitable for production of biomass and bioproducts

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Cyanobacteria as Photosynthetic Biocatalysts: A Systems Biology Perspective

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Photosynthetic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Oleochemicals by Cyanobacteria: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

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Highly efficient conversion of plant oil to bio-aviation fuel and valuable chemicals by combination of enzymatic transesterification, olefin cross-metathesis, and hydrotreating

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Biosynthesis of Lipids and Hydrocarbons in Algae

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Recent advances in synthetic biology toolkits and metabolic engineering of Ralstonia eutropha H16 for production of value-added chemicals

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MbT-Tool: An open-access tool based on Thermodynamic Electron Equivalents Model to obtain microbial-metabolic reactions to be used in biotechnological process

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Toward metabolic engineering in the context of system biology and synthetic biology: advances and prospects

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Review of Synthetic Biology – Metabolic Engineering by Huimin Zhao and An-Ping Zeng (Editors)Preprint

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Construction and optimization of synthetic pathways in metabolic engineering

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Recent advances in synthetic biology for engineering isoprenoid production in yeast

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