Construction of Local Isolates of Cyanobacteria for Ethanol Production.

Payam Bayazeed Hasan and Dlnya Asad Mohamad

Faculty of Science and Science Education- Sulaimani University- Qliasan- Sulaimani- Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17656/jzs.10517

Abstract

Cyanobacteria can use solar energy and convert carbon dioxide into biofuel molecules in

one single biological system. In this research, Synechococcus sp. was isolated from

Saray Subhan Agha fresh water, a pure culture of Synechococcus was obtained by

several subculturing on BG11 media. For the production of ethanol by Synechococcus

sp. pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) and alcohol dehydrogenseII (ADH II), genes from

Zymomonas mobilis ATCC (29191), were amplified by PCR and cloned into the

pSyn_1⁄D-TOPO® Vector. The Synechococcus and Synechococcus elongates

transformed with constructed vector (pSyn_1⁄D-TOPO®) that harboring the two ethanol

fermenting genes. The transformation was performed using a double homologous

recombination system to integrate the PDC and ADHII genes into the local isolates of

Synechococcus sp. and Synechococcus elongatus chromosome under the control

cyanobacterial weak constitutive nickel inducible promoter. The recombinant

Synechococcus cells grow in different concentrations of NiSO4 (1, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10) μM in

BG11 media, under different temperature (15, 30, 45)  ̊C and different light intensity (10,

50, 150) μE. The enzymatic ethanol assay kit was used to determine ethanol

concentration produced by both recombinant Synechococcus sp. and recombinant

Synechococcus elongatus. Highest ethanol concentration obtained by those cultures

containing five μl NiSO4, which incubated under continues light of 50μE at 30 ̊C

(Optimum um condition for ethanol production by recombinant Synechococcus cells).

The amount of ethanol produced by local isolates of Synechococcus sp. was 0.00103 g/l,

whereas for Synechococcus elongatus was 0.0138 g/l. The amount of ethanol produced

by those Synechococcus cultures containing different concentrations of NiSO4 were

incubated under continuous light of (10 and 150) μE and temperature of (15 and 45)  ̊C

was less than those cultures were incubated under light of 50 μE and temperature of

30 ̊C.

Key Words:

cyanobacteria,

Synechococcus,

Ethanol, Sulaimani.

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