TABLE 1.

Selected promoters used in cyanobacteria.

Promoters Sources	Gene(s)	Expression hosts	Reference
Prbc	Synechococcus 6301, Synechocystis 6803, Synechococcus 7942	firefly luciferase, pdc, adh, far, accBCDA, accD, accA, fatB2	Synechococcus 6301, Synechocystis 6803, Synechococcus 7942	Takeshima et al. (1994), Deng and Coleman (1999), Liu et al. (2011b), Tan et al. (2011)
PpetE	Synechocystis 6803	far, far1, far2, accBCDA	Synechocystis 6803	Tan et al. (2011)
PpsbA1	Synechococcus 7942	efe, hydEF, hydG, cvrbcLS	Synechococcus 7942	Sakai et al. (1997), Takahama et al. (2003), Ducat et al. (2011a)
PpsbA2	Synechocystis 6803	pdc, adh, cvrbcLS, ispS, tesA, fatB1, fatB2	Synechocystis 6803, Synechococcus 7942	Iwaki et al. (2006), Dexter and Fu (2009), Lindberg et al. (2010), Liu et al. (2011b)
PpsaA	Synechocystis 6803	luxAB	Synechocystis 6803	Muramatsu and Hihara (2006)
PpsaD	Synechocystis 6803	luxAB	Synechocystis 6803	Muramatsu and Hihara (2007)
Pcpc	Synechocystis 6714	luxAB, accB, accC	Synechococcus 7942	Imashimizu et al. (2003)
PrnpB	Synechocystis 6803	GFP	Synechocystis 6803	Huang et al. (2010)
Pcmp	Synechocystis 6803	fol, gpl, shl	Synechocystis 6803	Liu et al. (2011a)
Psbt	Synechocystis 6803	gpl	Synechocystis 6803	Liu et al. (2011a)
PnrsB	Synechocystis 6803	holin, endolysin, auxiliary lysis enzyme	Synechocystis 6803	Liu and Curtiss (2009)
PT7	Coliphage T7	luxAB	Anabaena sp. 7120	Wolk et al. (1993)
Plac	E. coli	atoB, adhE2, ter, hbd, crt, hydA, alsS, ilvC, ilvD,	Synechococcus 7942	Atsumi et al. (2009), Ducat et al. (2011a), Lan and Liao (2011)
Ptrc/Ptac	E. coli	petE, atoB, adhE2, ter, hbd, crt, kivd, rbcLS, invA, glf, ldhA, lldP, phrA, GFP, EYFP	Synechococcus 7942, Synechocystis 6803	Geerts et al. (1995), Ng et al. (2000), Atsumi et al. (2009), Huang et al. (2010), Niederholtmeyer et al. (2010), Lan and Liao (2011)
Ptet	E. coli	GFP	Synechocystis 6803	Huang et al. (2010)