Driving metabolic pathways on with sunlight
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 08:41
in Biology & Nature
Most life forms are directly or indirectly dependent on photosynthesis. The question is, can we exploit sunlight more broadly than in carbohydrate production, making it effectively a synthetic biology part? As an answer to this, a research group from University of Copenhagen published an article on using photosynthetic electrons to drive cytochrome P450 enzymes in cyanobacteria.