Production of a polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymer in insect cells with a modified eucaryotic fatty acid synthase

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2540-2546

  Williams, Mark D ^a   Rahn, John A ^a   Sherman, David H ^a,b  

^a 240 Gortner Laboratories   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; BIOPOLYMER; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; POLYESTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT; NONHUMAN; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ALCALIGENES; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0030006096     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2540-2546.1996     Document Type: Article

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