Tu, Weiming http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4256-5291
Xu, Jiabao http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1285-9408
Thompson, Ian P. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0532-0885
Huang, Wei E. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1302-6528
Funding for this research was provided by:
RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M002403/1, EP/N009746/1, EP/M02833X/1)
Article History
Received: 2 July 2023
Accepted: 11 November 2023
First Online: 4 December 2023
Competing interests
: W.T., I.P.T. and W.E.H. have filed a provisional patent application, through the University of Oxford, with the UK Patent Office related to this work. The patent application title is “Engineering of a Photoautotrophic Cell for CO<sub>2</sub> Fixation”, and the International Patent Application Number is PCT/GB2023/052452. The specific aspects of the manuscript encompassed by the patent application include methods for engineering rhodopsin-based photoautotrophic CO<sub>2</sub> fixation. J.X. declares no competing interests.