Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
Wei Wu, Xufeng Liu, Luyao Bao, Weihua Wang and Xuefeng Lu
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl
Rapidly growing demand for energy and environmental concerns about carbon dioxide emissions stimulate the development
of renewable biofuels. Due to efficient photosynthetic capability, robust growth, and established genetic modification
system, cyanobacteria are recently used for production of different biofuel and biochemical molecules by genetic engineering
and showed great potentials as the next-generation microbial cell factories. Alka(e)nes possess higher energy density,
hydrophobic property and compatibility with existing liquid fuel infrastructure, which are the predominant constituents of
gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels. Our recent research progress in biosynthesis of cyanobacterial alka(e)nes will be presented. The
diversity of hydrocarbon production profiles of cyanobacterial species, the enzymatic engineering of aldehyde deformylating
oxygenase (ADO) through both directed evolution and rational design, and the construction of cyanobacteria mutants with
the higher alka(e)ne-production efficiency, will be discussed.