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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 231-242Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2018.11.002
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- National Institutes of Health [R35GM118290, T32GM007240]
- US Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0006394]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- University of California, San Diego CRES postdoc award
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0006394] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that are influential in global geochemistry and are promising candidates for industrial applications. Because the livelihood of cyanobacteria is directly dependent upon light, a comprehensive understanding of metabolism in these organisms requires taking into account the effects of day-night transitions and circadian regulation. These events synchronize intracellular processes with the solar day. Accordingly, metabolism is controlled and structured differently in cyanobacteria than in heterotrophic bacteria. Thus, the approaches applied to engineering heterotrophic bacteria will need to be revised for the cyanobacterial chassis. Here, we summarize important findings related to diurnal metabolism in cyanobacteria and present open questions in the field.
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