LIGHT-DRIVEN CO2 REDUCTION TO ORGANIC COMPOUNDS TO SERVE AS FUELS OR AS INDUSTRIAL HALF PRODUCTS BY AN AUTOTROPH CONTAINING A FERMENTATIVE GENE CASSETTE

摘要

A process of producing an organic compound and/or an intermediary compound as defined herein by feeding carbon dioxide to a culture of a cyanobacterial cell and subjecting said culture to light, wherein said cell is capable of expressing a nucleic acid molecule, wherein the expression of said nucleic acid molecule confer on the cell the ability to convert a glycolytic intermediate into said organic compound and/or into said intermediary compound and wherein said nucleic acid molecule is under the control of a regulatory system which responds to a change in the concentration of a nutrient in said culture.