67 results about "Synechocystis" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for improving the content of fatty acid in synechocystis PCC6803. The steps are as follows: I, performing PCR (polymerase chain reaction) amplification on psbA2 promoters and peanut sulfur lipase genes AhFatA and AhFatB1; II, fusing PCR, Promotor+AhFatA and Promotor+AhFatB1; III, preparing Promotor+AhFatA+AhFatB1 through fusing PCR amplification; IV, inserting into plasmids to prepare a recombinant vector; V, preparing transgenosis synechocystis through transforming; and VI, culturing under the condition with the temperature of 30 DEG C to prepare synechocystis PCC6803 with high content of fatty acid. According to the invention, the content of linoleic acid of transgenosis synechocystis obtained by the method and transformed into AhFatA gene-positive synechocystis PCC6803 under the mixed culturing condition with the temperature of 30 DEG C is obviously increased, so that the method for improving the content of fatty acid in synechocystis PCC6803 has broad application prospect.

The invention particularly relates to synechocystis efficient double homologous recombinant vector as well as a construction method and the application thereof. The nucleotide sequence of the synechocystis efficient double homologous recombinant vector is shown as SEQ ID NO.8 or SEQ ID NO.9. The invention also discloses the construction method and the application of the synechocystis efficient double homologous recombinant vector. The synechocystis efficient double homologous recombinant vector expresses synechocystis PCC6803Delta 15, Delta 15 and Delta 6 fatty acid desaturase gene in synechocystis PCC6803, and can obviously increase the content of therapic acid in synechocystis.

The invention relates to an application of a sll0147 gene in synthesizing synechocystis carotenoids, wherein the nucleotide sequence of the sll0147 gene in the application is shown as SEQ ID NO.1. For the first time, the invention discloses the important effect of the sll0147 gene of synechocystis PCC6803 in synthetising carotenoids; by increasing the expression of the sll0147 gene in the synechocystis PCC 6803 through an overexpression method by the applicant, the percentage composition of the carotenoid component in a mutant strain is obviously changed, wherein the content of myxoxanthophyll is increased by 47.4%, the content of zeaxanthine is increased by 93.8%, while the content of echinenone is reduced by 60.9%, and the content of beta-carotene is reduced by 15.9%.

The invention relates, in part, to nucleic acid constructs, genetically modified host cells and methods employing such constructs and host cells to increase the production of 3-methyl-2-butenol from IPP. Thus, in some aspects, the invention provides a genetically modified host cell transformed with a nucleic acid construct encoding a fusion protein comprising a phosphatase capable of catalyzing the dephosphorylation of dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) linked to an IPP isomerase capable of converting IPP to DMAPP, wherein the nucleic acid construct is operably linked to a promoter. In some embodiments, the genetically modified host cell 5 further comprises a nucleic acid encoding a reductase that is capable of converting 3-methyl-2-butenol to 3-methyl-butanol. In some embodiments, the reductase is encoded by a nucleic acid construct introduced into the cell. In some embodiments, the IPP isomerase is a Type I isomerase. In some embodiments, the IPP isomerase is a Type II isomerase. In some embodiments, the host cell is selected from a group of taxonimcal classes consisting of 20 Escherichia, Enterobacter, Azotobacter, Erwinia, Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Proteus, Salmonella, Serratia, Shigella, Rhizobia, Vitreoscilla, Synechococcus, Synechocystis, and Paracoccus taxonomical classes. In some embodiments, the host cell is an Escherichia coli cell. In some embodiments, the host cell is a fungal cell, such as a yeast cell. In some embodiments, the yeast cell is a Saccharomyces sp. cell. In some embodiments, the host cell is an algal, insect or mammalian cell line. In some embodiments, the phosphatase is nudB from E. coli. In some embodiments, the IPP isomerase is encoded by an idi gene from E. coli or idil gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

The invention discloses a method for improving ethanol tolerance of synechocystis PCC6803 and an application, and belongs to the field of industrial microorganism. With the application of the method, a synechocystis PCC6803 strain with ethanol tolerance obviously improved is obtained, and the strain is applicable to the construction of genetically engineered bacteria for producing fuel ethanol. According to the method provided by the invention, an sll0687 gene in the synechocystis PCC6803 is knocked out through homologous recombination; and the ethanol tolerance of the synechocystis PCC6803 strain IK2 obtained through the application of the method is significantly improved. Under 1.5% (v/v) ethanol stress, the growth state of the strain is obviously better than that of a wild-type strain. The ethanol-tolerance strain prepared by the invention has important theoretical and practical significance for the construction of the genetically engineered bacteria for producing the fuel ethanol; and the strain has a broad application prospect.

Belonging to the field of industrial microorganisms, the invention discloses a method for improving the ammonium salt tolerance of synechocystis PCC6803 and application. By means of the method, a synechocystis PCC6803 overexpression strain OE0528 with significantly improved ammonium salt tolerance can be obtained. The algal strain can be used for construction of a high concentration ammonium saltwastewater purified genetic engineering strain. By overexpression of the sll0528 gene in synechocystis PCC6803, the synechocystis PCC6803 overexpression strain OE0528 has significantly improved ammonium salt tolerance. Under 180-210mM ammonium salt stress, the growth status of the overexpression algal strain is obviously superior that of the wild type. The ammonium salt tolerant overexpression algal strain obtained by the invention has important theoretical and practical significance for further construction and utilization of genetic engineering bacteria of high concentration ammonium salt, and has broad application prospects.

The invention discloses a sewage treatment apparatus with Synechocystis-Bacillus blend system and a method of using the same and mainly relates to the field of treatment of urban domestic sewage by microbial mineralization. The sewage treatment apparatus with Synechocystis-Bacillus blend system comprises a sterilizing device, a microbial reactor and a mineral recycling device that are communicated sequentially from top to bottom, and Synechocystis and Bacillus are loaded into the microbial reactor according to a bacterium-alga ratio of 1:1000 to 1:50 to form a symbiotic system; the apparatus and the method have the advantages that the bacterium-alga symbiotic system is established in the apparatus to utilize Synechocystis to produce oxygen, the growth need of Bacillus is satisfied and balanced, the application of microbial sewage treatment in large-scale production is implemented, and the apparatus and the method have great economic and social significance.

The invention discloses a synechocystis-6803 genetically engineered bacterium capable of producing 3-hydroxypropionic acid, and a construction method and application thereof. The construction method is as follows: a malonyl coenzyme A reductase gene in orange chloroflexus is cloned into synechocystis 6803; and acetylcoenzyme A carboxylase, biotin acylase and an NAD(P) transhydrogenase gene in the synechocystis 6803 are expressed. The synechocystis 6803 is transformed through a synthetic biology method to obtain the synechocystis-6803 genetically engineered bacterium capable of producing the 3-hydroxypropionic acid. The experiments prove that the final yield of the 3-HP (3-hydroxypropionic acid) of the genetically engineered bacterium is up to 837.18mg/L, which is of great theoretical and practical significances for the production of the 3-HP through photosynthetic microorganisms.

The invention relates to a method for cyclizing an enzyme protein. The cyclase protein is mediated by Synechocystis Ssp DnaB intein and Mycobacterium xenopus Mxe GyrA intein, and the N and C of the enzyme protein are cyclized by natural peptide bonds. Link both ends. The present invention obtains the cyclized xylanase with enhanced thermostability by the above method.

The invention discloses a biological mothballing system suitable for synechococcus elongatus, and a construction method and application of the biological mothballing system. The construction method comprises the steps that a virulent gene sepT2, an antitoxic gene sepA2 and an iron-deficiency inducible promoter PisiAB are obtained from the synechococcus elongatus 7942, and a promoter PpsbA2 is obtained from synechocystis 6803; a terminator Trbcl is obtained from integrative plasmid pBA3031 through amplification; pBR322 is taken as a carrier, the virulent gene sepT2 is expressed with the iron-deficiency inducible promoter PisiAB, and the terminator Trbcl is used for terminating transcription; and the antitoxic gene sepA2 is expressed with the promoter PpsbA2, and plasmid is constructed and transferred into the synechococcus elongatus. According to the system, the synechococcus elongatus grows normally under the non-inducing situation and rapidly dies after being induced. The important theoretical and practical significance for development and optimization of the biological mothballing system of the synechococcus elongatus is achieved, and reference is also provided for solving the bio-safety problem of other cyanobacteria.

This invention provides an alternative source of ahas and pds nucleic acids for plant transformation and selection. In particular, the invention provides ahas and pds nucleic acids from cyanobacteria, for example, Synechocystis, and expression elements of these genes for control of expression in plastids. The invention further provides nucleic acids encoding the acetolactate synthase (ahas) large subunit and the ahas small subunit which were found to provide herbicide resistance to plants. The present invention also provides a novel Synechocystis mutant phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene conferring resistance to 4′-fluoro-6-[(alpha, alpha, alpha,-trfluoro-m-tolyl)oxy]-picolinamide, a bleaching herbicide. The present invention provides improved methods involving cyanobacteria for the screening of compounds, including a new high throughput protocol that is a rapid and cost effective way to identify target site genes.

The invention relates to a laccase gene slr1573 derived from synechocystis 6803 and application thereof in dye decolorization and belongs to the technical field of biology. The DNA sequence of the laccase gene is shown as SEQ ID NO.1, and an amino acid sequence of an encoded protein is shown as SEQ ID NO.2. A prokaryotic expression vector of the synechocystis laccase gene slr1573 is constructed, an escherichia coli expression strain BL21 (DE3) is transformed, the strain expressing the recombinant Slr1573 is successfully obtained, and the enzymatic property of crude recombinant laccase liquid is detected. The obtained slr1573 laccase gene is efficiently expressed, and the recombinant laccase can efficiently catalyze decolorization of dyes such as malachite green.

Belonging to the field of industrial microorganisms, the invention in particular relates to a synechocystis PCC6803 mutant strain with significantly improved ethanol tolerance and application thereof. The ethanol tolerance related gene is slr0599, and the base sequence is shown as SEQ ID No.7. The mutant strain PCC 6803Deltaslr0599 is preserved on August 4, 2017 in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) located at No.3, 1st yard, Beichen west road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, the preservation number is CGMCC14333, and the strain is named as Synechocystis sp. by taxonomy. The synechocystis mutant strain is an ethanol tolerant mutant strain, and under 1.5% (v/v) ethanol stress, the growth state of the algal strain is obviously superior to that of wild algal strains. The ethanol tolerant algal strain obtained by the invention has important application value and referential significance for production of biofuel ethanol with synechocystis, and has wide application prospect.

The invention relates to the technical field of biological energy source, in particular to a cyanobacteria synechocystis mutant, a method for screening the synechocystis mutant, a plasmid expression vector introduced with a promoter sequence which is encoded with pyruvate decarboxylase polynucleotide and/or is inducted by nitrate, the synechocystis mutant introduced with the promoter sequence which is encoded with the pyruvate decarboxylase polynucleotide and/or is inducted by the nitrate, and the application of the mutant to prepare ethanol.

The invention discloses a new use of a synechocystis protein in paddy rice property improvement, provides an application of a protein having a structure represented by sequence 2 in a sequence table in the improvement of the plant chlorophyll content and/or the plant heading rate, and also provides an application of a gene encoded by the protein having a structure represented by the sequence 2 in the sequence table in the improvement of the plant chlorophyll content and/or the plant heading rate. Transgenic experiments that an slr1512 gene is introduced into paddy rice prove that the chlorophyll content and the heading rate of the slr1512 gene transferred paddy rice are obviously improved, so the slr1512 gene and products encoded thereby are of great theoretical and practical significance to the cultivation of photosynthesis enhanced new species of crops, and can be used for cultivating agricultural high-yield plant varieties.

The invention provides a chromone-containing benzoyl hydrazone compound with an inhibiting effect on growth of synechocystis PCC6803 and a preparation method thereof. The molecular structure of the compound is shown as a formula I, wherein R1 is selected from hydrogen, halogen, nitro, hydroxyl, carboxyl and C1-C4 alkyl; R2 is selected from hydrogen, bromine, hydroxyl or nitro; R3 is selected fromhydrogen or hydroxyl; R4 is selected from hydrogen, halogen, nitro, trifluoromethyl or hydroxyl; and R5 is selected from hydrogen or hydroxyl. The invention further provides a preparation method of the compound. According to the preparation method, benzoyl hydrazine or a substituent thereof reacts with 3-formyl chromone or a substituent thereof in an ethanol environment containing acetic acid to generate the compound. The compound has a good effect on inhibiting the growth of synechocystis PCC6803, the EC50 value is within a range of 0.8-29.8 [mu]M, and the compound can be used for preparing related algistat products.

The invention relates to an in-situ restoration method for large water area pollution based on microbial strains. The preparation method comprises the following steps: placing first mixed bacterial strain in a polluted water area; wherein the first mixed bacterial strain comprises synechocystis, lactic streptococci and actinomyces; after 20 to 30 hours, placing second mixed bacterial strain in thepolluted water area; wherein the second mixed bacterial strain comprises synechocystis, denitrifying bacteria, streptomyces jingyangensis and thiobacillus oxidans; after 10 to 15 hours, placing a third mixed bacterial strain in the polluted water area; wherein the third mixed bacterial strain comprises synechocystis, rhodopseudomonas palustris, alcaligenes and aspergillus oryzae; and salvaging and collecting flocculates on the surface of polluted water area to purify the water in the water area. The in-situ restoration method can rapidly degrade pollutants such as nitrogen and phosphorus in the polluted water area, can rapidly decompose and convert toxic and harmful substances such as ammonia, nitrite and hydrogen sulfide in the water, and quickly restore the ecological balance and self-purification function of the water area.