A recombinant cyanobacterium that accumulates poly-(hydroxybutyrate)

✍ Scribed by Taro Suzuki; Masato Miyake; Yutaka Tokiwa; Haruhisa Saegusa; Terumi Saito; Yasuo Asada

• Book ID: 104633689
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 239 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00129729

✦ Synopsis

A cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 was transformed with a recombinant plasmid harboring poly-(hydroxybutyrate) (PHB)-synthesizing genes from Alcaligenes eutrophus. The acquired transformant accumulated about 1% PHB of dry cell weight in nitrogen-starved conditions. The PHB content of the transformant was kept stable during a series of batch cultures.