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Title Transgenic microalgae as green cell factories / edited by Rosa León, Aurora Galván, Emilio Ferná́ndez
Published New York, N.Y. : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 131 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 616
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 616.
Contents Nuclear transformation of eukaryotic microalgae : historical overview, achievements, and problems / Rosa León and Emilio Ferná́ndez -- Transformation of cyanobacteria / Agustín Vioque -- Molecular biology and the biotechnological potential of diatoms / Peter Kroth -- Tools and techniques for chloroplast transformation of chlamydomonas / Saul Purton
In the grip of algal genomics / Arthur R. Grossman -- Insertional mutagenesis as a tool to study genes/functions in chlamydomonas / Aurora Galván, David González-Ballester, and Emilio Ferná́ndez -- Optimization of recombinant protein expression in the chloroplasts of green algae / Samuel P. Fletcher, Machiko Muto, and Stephen P. Mayfield
Phycoremediation of heavy metals using transgenic microalgae / Sathish Rajamani [and others] -- Hydrogen fuel production by transgenic microalgae / Anastasios Melis, Michael Seibert, and Maria L. Ghirardi -- Microalgal vaccines / Surasak Siripornadulsil, Konrad Dabrowski, and Richard Sayre
Summary Microalgae have been largely cultured and commercialized as food and feed additives, and their potential as source of high-added value compounds is well known. But, in contrast to the large number of genetically modified bacteria, yeast and even higher plants, only a few species of microalgae have been genetically transformed with efficiency. Initial difficulties in the expression of foreign genes in microalgae have been progressively overcome, and powerful molecular tools for their genetic engineering are now on hand. A considerable collection of promoters and selectable marker genes and an increasing number of genomic or cDNA sequences have become available in recent years. More work is needed to transform new species of microalgae, specially those that have commercial value, so that it would be possible to increase the productivity of traditional compounds or synthesize novel ones. Silencing transgenes remains as an important limitation for stable expression of foreign genes. This problem is not unique to microalgae since it has also been observed in plants, animals and fungi. A better understanding of the mechanisms that control the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes is therefore needed. In this book a group of outstanding researchers working on different areas of microalgae biotechnology offer a global vision of the genetic manipulation of microalgae and their applications
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Microalgae -- Physiology
Microalgae -- Biotechnology
Genetic transformation.
Bioreactors.
Algae -- Physiology.
Algae -- physiology
Biological Factors -- biosynthesis
Bioreactors
Biotechnology -- methods
Organisms, Genetically Modified -- genetics
Transformation, Genetic
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Algae -- Physiology
Bioreactors
Genetic transformation
Microalgae -- Biotechnology
Microalgae -- Physiology
Form Electronic book
Author León, Rosa, Ph. D.
Galván, Aurora.
Fernández, Emilio.
ISBN 9780387755328
0387755322
0387755314
9780387755311
9786611926960
6611926968