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María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks Nick! I hope that you are doing well!

María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you to all the authors, Yagut (@yagut.bsky.social), Lauri (@laurinikkanen.bsky.social), Manos and, especially to Danny

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María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · 19d

I am so thrilled to share our new publication. We found that carboxysome losses integrity in response to ROS and PQ pool overreduction. RpaA seems to have an important role in controlling the organization of carboxysomes. For more details, here is the link:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Plastoquinone redox status influences carboxysome integrity via a RpaA‐ and reactive oxygen species‐dependent regulatory network

We identified a dramatic remodeling of carboxysomes under conditions that lead to overreduction of the plastoquinone pool of the photosynthetic electron transport chain. This overreduction was accomp...

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María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks Anthony!

María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · Sep 5

So happy to see this publication finally out! Congratulations and
thank you to all the authors!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mutations in the circadian cycle drive adaptive plasticity in cyanobacteria | PNAS

Circadian clocks allow organisms to anticipate daily fluctuations in light and temperature, but how this anticipatory role promotes adaptation to d...

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Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social · Sep 4

Mutations in the circadian cycle drive adaptive plasticity in cyanobacteria | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Cyanotrans @cyanotrans.bsky.social · Jul 30

Engineering quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 towards self-inducible systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Engineering quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 towards self-inducible systems.

Despite significant potential for cyanobacteria as sustainable bioproduction chases, there are limited examples of scaled cyanobacterial bioproduction…

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María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happy to this story finally published! Happy to a be a part of it!
Congratulations to all the authors!

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Engineering quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 towards self-inducible systems.

Despite significant potential for cyanobacteria as sustainable bioproduction chases, there are limited examples of scaled cyanobacterial bioproduction…

www.sciencedirect.com

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María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · Jun 3

So happy to share our new preprint for a collaborative effort! Congratulations to all the authors!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

HIGH CO2 LEVELS OVERCOME THE NIGHTTIME LETHALITY OF CIRCADIAN MUTANTS IN CYANOBACTERIA

Cyanobacteria have adapted to daily fluctuations in light intensity through a circadian clock that aligns their physiology and metabolism to the external daytime. In the model cyanobacterium Synechoco...

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María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · Apr 11

Thank you Nick! Everything is going pretty well in Michigan. I hope that everything is going well for you too!

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Yagut Allahverdiyeva-Rinne @yagut.bsky.social · Jan 16

We are organizing the International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries in Turku Finland 2–4 June 2025 rrbconference.com. Abstract submission for oral presentations is open until 31.01.2025. Dedicated sessions on
BioFoundry & Syntheitic Biology, Algal Biorefineries, Biocatalysis, ...

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María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · Apr 4

So happy to share the latest preprint from Ducat lab. Happy to be part of it!

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Autoinduction expression systems by AHL-mediated quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

Despite significant potential for cyanobacteria as sustainable bioproduction chases, there are limited examples of scaled cyanobacterial bioproduction. In part, this is because most cyanobacterial spe...

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María Santos-Merino @cyanomaria.bsky.social · Jan 25

I am so happy to share the preprint of my latest research project. Great collaboration with @yagut.bsky.social and @laurinikkanen.bsky.social

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Plastoquinone redox status influences carboxysome integrity via a RpaA- and ROS-dependent regulatory network

Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments that encapsulate Rubisco and are a core component of the cyanobacterial carbon concentration mechanism (CCM). While carboxysome number, size and spatial or...

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