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IBBR publication #3732

Plastid Transformation: New Challenges in the Circular Economy Era

Tamburino R, Marcolongo L, Sannino L, Ionata E, Scotti N

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 (23): 15254. (2022)
doi: 10.3390/ijms232315254

In a circular economy era the transition towards renewable and sustainable materials is very urgent. The development of bio-based solutions, that can ensure technological circularity in many priority areas (e.g., agriculture, biotechnology, ecology, green industry, etc.), is very strategic. The agricultural and fishing industry wastes represent important feedstocks that require the development of sustainable and environmentally-friendly industrial processes to produce and recover biofuels, chemicals and bioactive molecules. In this context, the replacement, in industrial processes, of chemicals with enzyme-based catalysts assures great benefits to humans and the environment. In this review, we describe the potentiality of the plastid transformation technology as a sustainable and cheap platform for the production of recombinant industrial enzymes, summarize the current knowledge on the technology, and display examples of cellulolytic enzymes already produced. Further, we illustrate several types of bacterial auxiliary and chitinases/chitin deacetylases enzymes with high biotechnological value that could be manufactured by plastid transformation. - Keywords: plant biofactories, genetic transformation, chloroplast, tobacco, recombinant proteins, industrial enzymes

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