Microbial electro-photosynthesis

Flory, Justin; Fromme, Petra; Vermaas, Willem; Rittman, Bruce; Torres, Cesar; Moore, Thomas; Moore, Ana

Title: Microbial electro-photosynthesis

Patent · Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2020

OSTI ID:1632562

Flory, Justin; Fromme, Petra; Vermaas, Willem; Rittman, Bruce; Torres, Cesar; Moore, Thomas; Moore, Ana

Methods and apparatus for growing photosynthetic organisms lacking Photosystem II (PSII) function using externally supplied electrons shuttled into the organism using redox mediators to improve photosynthetic output and to produce and recover chemicals of interest. By removing PSII, all PAR photons are funneled toward Photosystem I, thereby significantly increasing the theoretical photon utilization efficiency for CO2 fixation, energy storage and the capacity to synthesize valuable chemicals. Additional genetic modification can be performed to insert or enhance specific metabolic pathways to generate products of commercial interest.

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Research Organization:: Arizona State Univ., Scottsdale, AZ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: SC0001016

Assignee:: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, AZ)

Patent Number(s):: 10,563,162

Application Number:: 16/539,961

OSTI ID:: 1632562

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 08/13/2019

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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