Lab publications

2024

Moore L, Caspi R, Campbell DA, Casey JR, Crevecoeur S, Lea-Smith DJ, Long B, Omar NM, Mercer Paley S, Schmelling NM, Torrado A, Zehr JP, Kerp, PD (2024). CyanoCyc cyanobacterial web portal. Frontiers in Microbiology 15, 1340413.

Liu J, Li D-W, He X, Liu R, Cheng H, Su C, Chen M, Wang Y, Zhao Z, Xu H, Cheng Z, Wang Z, Pedentchouk N, Lea-Smith DJ, Todd JD, Liu X, Zhao M, Zhang X-H (2024). A unique subseafloor microbiosphere in the Mariana Trench driven by episodic sedimentation. Marine Life Science and Technology 6 (1), 168-181.

2023

McNelly R, Vergara-Cruces A, Lea-Smith DJ, Seung D, Webster M (2023). Exploring the potential of plastid biology and biotechnology: Plastid Preview Meeting, Norwich, UK, 1–2 September 2022. New Phytologist.

Zhu XY, Li Y, Lidbury IDEA, Todd JD, Lea-Smith DJ, Tian J, Zhang X-H, Liu J (2023). Deep-sea Bacteroidetes from the Mariana Trench specialize in hemicellulose and pectin degradation typically associated with terrestrial systems. Microbiome 11 (1), 175.

Abufalgha AA, Curson ARJ, Lea-Smith DJ, Pott RWM (2023). The effect of Alcanivorax Borkumensis SK2, a hydrocarbon-metabolising organism, on gas holdup in a 4-phase bubble column bioprocess. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 46 (5), 635-644.

Cho BA, Moreno-Cabezuelo JÁ, Mills LA, del Río Chanona EA, Lea-Smith DJ, Zhang D. Integrated experimental and photo-mechanistic modelling of biomass and optical density production of fast versus slow growing model cyanobacteria. Algal Research 70, 102997.

2022

Mills LA, Moreno-Cabezuelo JÁ, Włodarczyk A, Victoria AJ, Mejías R, Nenninger A, Moxon S, Bombelli P, Selão TT, McCormick AJ, Lea-Smith DJ. Development of a Biotechnology Platform for the Fast-Growing Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 11901. Biomolecules 12 (7), 872.

Hervey JRD, Bombelli P, Lea-Smith DJ, Hulme AK, Hulme NR, Keighley R, Howe CJ (2022). A dual compartment cuvette system for correcting scattering in whole-cell absorbance spectroscopy of photosynthetic microorganisms. Photosynthesis Research. 151 (1), 61-69.

2021

Wey LT, Lawrence JM, Chen X, Clark R, Lea-Smith DJ, Zhang JZ, Howe CJ (2021). A biophotoelectrochemical approach to unravelling the role of cyanobacterial cell structures in exoelectrogenesis. Electrochimica Acta 395, 139214.

Du Toit J-P, Lea-Smith DJ, Git A, Hervey J, Howe CJ, Pott R (2021). Expression of alternative nitrogenases in Rhodopseudomonas palustris is enhanced using a novel genetic toolset for rapid, markerless modification. ACS Synthetic Biology 10 (9), 2167-2178.

Lea-Smith DJ, Hanke GT (2021). Electron transport in cyanobacteria and its potential in bioproduction. Cyanobacteria Biotechnology (Wiley-VCH GmbH). 33-63.

Lea-Smith DJ, Summerfield TC, Ducat, DC, Lu X, McCormick AJ, Purton S (2021). Exploring the growing role of cyanobacteria in industrial biotechnology and sustainability. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12: 725128.

McGenity TJ, McKew BA, Lea-Smith DJ (2021). Cryptic hydrocarbon cycling. Nature Microbiology 6(4). 419-420.

2020

Xue, C.-X.; Liu, J.; Lea-Smith, D.J.; Rowley, G.; Lin, H.; Zheng, Y.; Zhu, X.-Y.; Liang, J.; Ahmad, W.; Todd, J.D.; Zhang, X.-H (2020), Insights into the Vertical Stratification of Microbial Ecological Roles across the Deepest Seawater Column on Earth. Microorganisms,8, 1309.

Solymosi D, Muth-Pawlak D, Nikkanen L, Fitzpatrick D, Vasudevan R, Howe CJ, Lea-Smith DJ, Allahverdiyeva Y (2020). Cytochrome cM downscales photosynthesis under photomixotrophy in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Physiology, 183 (2), 700-716.

Mills LA, McCormick AJ, Lea-Smith DJ (2020). Current knowledge and recent advances in understanding metabolism of the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Bioscience Reports 40 (4), BSR20193325.

2019

Gale GAR, Schiavon Osorio AA, Mills LA, Wang B, Lea-Smith DJ, McCormick AJ (2019). Emerging species and genome editing tools: Future prospects in cyanobacterial synthetic biology. Microorganisms 7(10), 409.

Baers LL, Breckels LM, Mills LA, Gatto L, Deery MJ, Stevens TJ, Howe CJ*, Lilley KS*, Lea-Smith DJ* (2019). Cyanobacterial proteome mapping reveals distinct compartment organisation and metabolism dispersed throughout the cell. Plant Physiology. * Co-corresponding authors.

Liu J, Zheng Y, Lin H, Wang X, Li M, Liu Y, Yu M, Zhao M, Pedentchouk N, Lea-Smith DJ, Todd JD, Magill CR, Zhang W-J, Zhou S, Song D, Zhong H, Xin Y, Yu M, Tian J, Zhang X-H (2019). Proliferation of hydrocarbon degrading microbes at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Microbiome, 7 (1), 47.

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Vasudevan R, Gale GAR, Schiavon AA, Puzorjov A, Malin J, Gillespie MD, Vavitsas K, Zulkower V, Wang B, Howe CJ, Lea-Smith DJ, McCormick AJ (2019). CyanoGate: A modular cloning suite for engineering cyanobacteria based on the plant MoClo syntax. Plant Physiology 180, 39-55.

2018

Saar KL, Bombelli P, Lea-Smith DJ, Call T, Aro EM, Muller T, Howe CJ, Knowles, TPJ (2018). Enhancing power density by biophotovoltaics by decoupling storage and power delivery. Nature Energy (3), 75-81.

2017

Call TP, Carey T, Bombelli P, Lea-Smith DJ, Hooper P, Howe C, Torrisi F (2017). Platinum-free, graphene based anodes and air cathodes for single chamber microbial fuel cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A (5), 23872-23886.