Metabolic rewiring of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 enhances astaxanthin production from CO2.
Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are promising chassis for converting CO2 into value-added products, although competition between cellular growth and biosynthesis can constrain productivity. Here, the high-carbon-fixing, adaptively evolved Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 strain S20 was engineered for astaxanthin productio...