Optimization of polyphosphate degradation and phosphate secretion using hybrid metabolic pathways and engineered host strains

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 754-761

  Van Dien, Stephen J ^a   Keasling, J D ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Phosphate secretion; Phosphate starvation; Polyphosphate

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOPOLYMERS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; PHOSPHATES;

POLYPHOSPHATE;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; POLYPHOSPHATE; POLYPHOSPHATE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032552494     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(19980920)59:6<754::AID-BIT12>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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