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 includes feeding carbon dioxide to a culture of Cyanobacteria cells and subjecting the culture to light, wherein the cells are capable of expressing a nucleic acid molecule that confers the ability to convert a glycolytic intermediate into said organic/intermediary compound. The expression of the nucleic acid molecule is under the control of a regulatory system which responds to a change in the concentration of a nutrient in the culture.