Engineering artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis

Jason E. Cournoyer; Sarah D. Altman; Yang-le Gao; Catherine L. Wallace; Dianwen Zhang; Guo-Hsuen Lo; Noah T. Haskin; Angad P. Mehta

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29961-7

Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Engineering artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis

Jason E. Cournoyer,
Sarah D. Altman,
Yang-le Gao,
Catherine L. Wallace,
Dianwen Zhang,
Guo-Hsuen Lo,
Noah T. Haskin,
Angad P. Mehta

Affiliations

Jason E. Cournoyer: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sarah D. Altman: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yang-le Gao: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Catherine L. Wallace: The Imaging Technology Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dianwen Zhang: The Imaging Technology Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Guo-Hsuen Lo: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Noah T. Haskin: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angad P. Mehta: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29961-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The endosymbiotic theory posits that chloroplasts in eukaryotes arise from bacterial endosymbionts. Here, the authors engineer the yeast/cyanobacteria chimeras and show that the engineered cyanobacteria perform chloroplast-like functions to support the growth of yeast cells under photosynthetic conditions.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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