{"id":5639,"date":"2015-09-29T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2015-09-29T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:34:32","slug":"molecular-swiss-army-knife-to-make-biofuel-from-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/molecular-swiss-army-knife-to-make-biofuel-from-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Molecular &#8216;Swiss Army Knife&#8217; to Make Biofuel from Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Michigan State University have built a molecular \u2018Swiss Army Knife\u2019 which makes the production of biofuels and other green chemicals from algae more feasible. They created a synthetic protein that imp<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5631 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MSU-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"MSU\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MSU-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MSU-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MSU-45x45.jpg 45w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MSU.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>roves the assembly of the carbon-fixing factory of blue-green algae.<\/p>\n<p>The new protein replaces four gene products yet still supports photosynthesis. By reducing the number of genes needed to build carboxysomes, it is possible to facilitate the transfer of carboxysomes into plants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/molecular-swiss-army-knife-to-make-biofuel-from-algae-115092200568_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Michigan State University have built a molecular \u2018Swiss Army Knife\u2019 which makes the production of biofuels and other green chemicals from algae more feasible. They created a synthetic protein that improves the assembly of the carbon-fixing factory of blue-green algae. The new protein replaces four gene products yet still supports photosynthesis. By reducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,7,9,42,74,615,576],"tags":[200,136,639,540],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-chemicals","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-fuel-research","category-biofuel","category-blue-green-alage","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-biofuels","tag-algae-research","tag-algae-biodiesel","tag-university-of-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}