Characteristics and Application of As a Microbial Cell Factory

Overview

Journal Front Bioeng Biotechnol

Date 2022 Jun 1

PMID 35646843

Authors

Meijie Li

Peng Ning

Yi Sun

Jie Luo

Jianming Yang

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Abstract

, a purple nonsulfur bacterium, is a bacterium with the properties of extraordinary metabolic versatility, carbon source diversity and metabolite diversity. Due to its biodetoxification and biodegradation properties, has been traditionally applied in wastewater treatment and bioremediation. is rich in various metabolites, contributing to its application in agriculture, aquaculture and livestock breeding as additives. In recent years, has been engineered as a microbial cell factory to produce valuable chemicals, especially photofermentation of hydrogen. The outstanding property of as a microbial cell factory is its ability to use a diversity of carbon sources. is capable of CO fixation, contributing to photoautotrophic conversion of CO into valuable chemicals. can assimilate short-chain organic acids and crude glycerol from industrial and agricultural wastewater. Lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysates can also be degraded by . Utilization of these feedstocks can reduce the industry cost and is beneficial for environment. Applications of for biopolymers and their building blocks production, and biofuels production are discussed. Afterward, some novel applications in microbial fuel cells, microbial electrosynthesis and photocatalytic synthesis are summarized. The challenges of the application of are analyzed, and possible solutions are suggested.

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