Greening the Future:

The amino acid polymer cyanophycin could serve as a new and sustainable feedstock for so far petroleum-based plastics or polyaspartic acid.

Cyanophycin is produced naturally as nitrogen storage mainly by cyanobacteria, but in rather low amounts of maximally 3 percent of cell dry mass. Here we present for the first time cyanobacteria that are able to produce large quantities of cyanophycin.

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Tags: PII protein, N-acetyl-L- glutamate kinase (NAGK), biosynthesis of arginine, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, manipulation, Synechocystis