Metabolic engineering of Arabidopsis and Brassica for poly(3- hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) copolymer production

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1011-1016

  Slater, Steven ^a,b   Mitsky, Timothy A ^a   Houmiel, Kathryn L ^a   Hao, Ming ^a   Reiser, Steven E ^a   Taylor, Nancy B ^a   Tran, Minhtien ^a   Valentin, Henry E ^a   Rodriguez, Damian J ^a   Stone, Deborah A ^a   Padgette, Stephen R ^a   Kishore, Ganesh ^a   Gruys, Kenneth J ^a  

^a MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^b Cereon Genomics   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodegradable polymer; Green chemistry; PHA copolymer; Poly(hydroxyalkanoate)

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; COPOLYMER; FATTY ACID; MONOMER; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; POLYMER; VALERIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOENGINEERING; BRASSICA; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACYL COENZYME A; AMINATION; ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA; BUTYRIC ACIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYESTERS;

EID: 0032875264     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13711     Document Type: Article

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