The production of D-acetoin by a transgenic Escherichia coli

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 275-278

  Ui, S ^a   Mimura, A ^a   Okuma, M ^b   Kudo, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; DNA; GENE ENCODING;

ACETOIN; ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; BUTANEDIOL; DECARBOXYLASES; ENCODING GENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI JM109; FRAGMENT ENCODING; PYRUVIC ACID; TRANSFORMANTS; TRANSGENICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

2,3 BUTANEDIOL; 2,3 BUTANEDIOL DEHYDROGENASE; ACETOIN; ACETOLACTATE DECARBOXYLASE; ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; BUTANEDIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLASMID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031867366     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1998.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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