Fluctuating pH for efficient photomixotrophic succinate production.

Cyanobacteria are attracting increasing attention as a photosynthetic chassis organism for diverse biochemical production, however, photoautotrophic production remains inefficient. Photomixotrophy, a method where sugar is used to supplement baseline autotrophic metabolism in photosynthetic hosts, is becoming increasingly popular for enhancing sustainable bioproduction with multiple input energy streams. In this study, the commercially relevant diacid, succinate, was produced photomixotrophically. Succinate is an important industrial chemical that can be used for the production of a wide array of products, from pharmaceuticals to biopolymers. In this system, the substrate, glucose, is transported by a proton symporter and the product, succinate, is hypothesized to be transported by another proton symporter, but in the opposite direction. Thus, low pH is required for the import of glucose and high pH is required for the export of succinate. Succinate production was initiated in a pH 7 medium containing bicarbonate. Glucose was efficiently imported at around neutral pH. Utilization of bicarbonate by CO

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare the following financial interests which may be considered as potential competing interests: Marissa Tessman, Robert S. Pomeroy, Stephen P. Mayfield, and Ryan Simkovsky hold an equity position in Algenesis Materials, a company that could benefit from this research.