Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES
Volume 43, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2020.107578
Keywords
Cyanobacteria; Seawater; Salt tolerance; OMICS; Tolerance engineering
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFA0904600, 2018YFA0903000, 2018YFA0903600]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91751102, 31770035, 31770100, 31972931, 31901016, 21621004, 31370115, 31470217]
- Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project [TSBICIP-KJGG-007]
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Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are capable of utilizing sunlight and CO2 as sole energy and carbon sources, respectively. With genetically modified cyanobacteria being used as a promising chassis to produce various biofuels and chemicals in recent years, future large-scale cultivation of cyanobacteria would have to be performed in seawater, since freshwater supplies of the earth are very limiting. However, high concentration of salt is known to inhibit the growth of cyanobacteria. This review aims at comparing the mechanisms that different cyanobacteria respond to salt stress, and then summarizing various strategies of developing salt-tolerant cyanobacteria for seawater cultivation, including the utilization of halotolerant cyanobacteria and the engineering of salt-tolerant freshwater cyanobacteria. In addition, the challenges and potential strategies related to further improving salt tolerance in cyanobacteria are also discussed.
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