Pathway engineering for the production of aromatic compounds in Escherichia coli

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1996, Pages

  Flores, Noemí ^a   Xiao, Jimmy ^b   Berry, Alan ^b   Bolivar, Francisco ^a   Valle, Fernando ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid overproduction; Glucose transport; Glycolysis; Phosphoenolypyruvate

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

2 DEHYDRO 3 DEOXYPHOSPHOHEPTONATE ALDOLASE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; SUGAR PHOSPHATE; TRANSKETOLASE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3-DEOXY-7-PHOSPHOHEPTULONATE SYNTHASE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSE; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PLASMIDS; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; TRANSKETOLASE;

EID: 0029959052     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0596-620     Document Type: Article

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