Metabolic routing towards polyhydroxyalkanoic acid synthesis in recombinant Escherichia coli (fadR): Inhibition of fatty acid β-oxidation by acrylic acid

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-94

  Qi, Qingsheng ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a   Rehm, Bernd H a ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acrylic acid; Escherichia coli; Fatty acid oxidation; Polyhydroxyalkanoic acid; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ACRYLATES; ACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; FERMENTATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0032188771     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00368-1     Document Type: Article

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