Stensjö group

Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) for biofuel production.
Our research
Our main interest is to design robust strains of cyanobacteria to be used in large-scale cultivation for biofuels production. This research is within the biochemical route in the science of the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis (CAP), which is a collaborative constellation consisting of strong interdisciplinary research groups from Lund University, KTH and Uppsala University. The goal is to manufacture solar fuels using biological systems.
Our research projects
- Protein profiling of filamentous N2 fixing cyanobacteria for H2 production.
- Redox regulation in multicellular cyanobacteria – a proteomics approach.
- The relationship between oxidative stress and cyanotoxin production in cyanobacteria.
- Characterization of proteins involved in stress tolerance in cyanobacteria: Structural and functional characterization of ferritin-like proteins in Nostoc punctiforme.

Group members
Publications
Machine learning predicts system-wide metabolic flux control in cyanobacteria
Part of Metabolic engineering, p. 171-182, 2024
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Optimal energy and redox metabolism in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Part of npj Systems Biology and Applications, 2023
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Synthetic biology in marine cyanobacteria: Advances and challenges
Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
- DOI for Synthetic biology in marine cyanobacteria: Advances and challenges
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Part of Green Chemistry, p. 9602-9619, 2022
- DOI for A combined photobiological-photochemical route to C10 cycloalkane jet fuels from carbon dioxide via isoprene
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Part of Archives of Microbiology, 2022
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 579-590, 2021
- DOI for Photoautotrophic production of renewable ethylene by engineered cyanobacteria: Steering the cell metabolism towards biotechnological use
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Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 555-567, 2021
- DOI for Photosynthetic hydrogen production: Novel protocols, promising engineering approaches and application of semi‐synthetic hydrogenases
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Part of Metabolic engineering communications, 2021
- DOI for Isobutene production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by introducing α-ketoisocaproate dioxygenase from Rattus norvegicus
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Doing synthetic biology with photosynthetic microorganisms
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 624-638, 2021
- DOI for Doing synthetic biology with photosynthetic microorganisms
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2019
- DOI for The Dps4 from Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 is a member of His-type FOC containing Dps protein class that can be broadly found among cyanobacteria
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Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 2019
Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, p. 16635-16646, 2018
- DOI for Differential biochemical properties of three canonical Dps proteins from the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme suggest distinct cellular functions
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2018
- DOI for Homologous overexpression of NpDps2 and NpDps5 increases the tolerance for oxidative stress in the multicellular cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme
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Harnessing transcription for bioproduction in cyanobacteria
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 148-155, 2018
Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Design and characterization of a synthetic minimal promoter for heterocyst-specific expression in filamentous cyanobacteria
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Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, p. 1766-1776, 2016
Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2015
Part of Molecular Biotechnology, p. 1003-1009, 2015
Part of Environmental Microbiology, p. 829-844, 2014
Production of Squalene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Part of PLoS ONE, 2014
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Part of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, p. 3809-3818, 2014
Part of BMC Genomics, 2014
- DOI for Analysis of the early heterocyst Cys-proteome in the multicellular cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme reveals novel insights into the division of labor within diazotrophic filaments
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Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, p. 8828-8833, 2012
Part of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, p. 273-276, 2012
Part of Ambio, p. 163-168, 2012
Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, p. 152-159, 2011
Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 1772-1784, 2011
Synthetic Biology in Cyanobacteria: Engineering and Analyzing Novel Functions
Part of Methods in Enzymology, p. 539-579, 2011
Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, p. 1152-1161, 2011
Part of Environmental Microbiology, p. 2826-2837, 2010
Part of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, p. 880-890, 2010
Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, p. 252-263, 2009
Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 53, 2009
Characterization of the hupSL promoter activity in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133
Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 54, 2009
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Characterization of the hupSL promoter activity in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133
Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 54, 2009
Biomimetic and Microbial Approaches to Solar Fuel Generation
Part of Accounts of Chemical Research, p. 1899-1909, 2009
Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 187-198, 2009
Transcription of the extended hyp-operon in Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7120
Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 69, 2008
Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 1615-1628, 2008
Part of Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun, 2007
Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 621-635, 2007
Part of Planta, p. 1010-1023, 2006
Part of Plant Physiology, p. 71-84, 2004
Part of Plant Physiology, p. 844-846, 2003
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 496-502, 2000
Part of Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section B, p. 107-112, 1998
Cyanogenic glycosides and their metabolic enzymes in barley in relation to nitrogen levels.
Part of Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, p. 367-372, 1997