Metabolic capacity of Bacillus subtilis for the production of purine nucleosides, riboflavin, and folic acid

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-238

  Sauer, Uwe ^a   Cameron, Douglas C ^b   Bailey, James E ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Folic acid; Metabolic engineering; Metabolic fluxes; Purine nucleosides; Riboflavin; Stoichiometric model

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; GROWTH KINETICS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; STOICHIOMETRY; VITAMINS;

BIOENERGETIC EFFICIENCY; FOLIC ACID; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PURINE NUCLEOSIDES; RIBOFLAVIN;

METABOLISM;

FOLIC ACID; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE; RIBOFLAVIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOENERGY; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PURINE SYNTHESIS;

BACILLUS; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOLIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GUANOSINE; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PURINE NUCLEOSIDES; RIBOFLAVIN;

EID: 0032551605     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(19980720)59:2<227::AID-BIT10>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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