Light-powered microbes are super-producing chemical factories - EurekAlert

Researchers from Japan have found that engineering the light-dependent proton pump rhodopsin into <i>Escherichia coli</i> redirects carbon flow from cellular metabolism to biosynthetic product generation. This approach of using light as an energy source can h…

image: Generally, E. coli pumps protons into extracellular space by the respiratory chain with consuming carbon atoms in the TCA cycle, produces ATP by ATP synthase using the generated proton gradien… [+5272 chars]

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