bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.18.102244; this version posted May 19, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Awakening a latent carbon fixation cycle in Escherichia coli Ari Satanowski1‡, Beau Dronsella1‡, Elad Noor2, Bastian Vögeli3, Hai He1, Philipp Wichmann1, Tobias J. Erb3,4, Steffen N. Lindner1*, Arren Bar-Even1* 1Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany. 2Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Otto-Stern-Weg 3, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland. 3Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 10, 35043 Marburg, Germany. 4Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), 35043 Marburg, Germany. ‡ These authors contributed equally to this study. * Corresponding authors: Arren Bar-Even: phone: +49 331 567-8910; Email:
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[email protected] Keywords: metabolic engineering; synthetic biology; reductive carboxylation; NADPH biosynthesis; modular engineering approach. 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.18.102244; this version posted May 19, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Abstract Carbon fixation is one of the most important biochemical processes.