Metabolic engineering of a 1,2-propanediol pathway in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1180-1185

  Altaras, Nedim E ^a   Cameron, Douglas C ^a,b  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b CARGILL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL DEHYDROGENASE; LACTALDEHYDE; METHYLGLYOXAL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOPROCESS; CLONING VECTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032984973     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.3.1180-1185.1999     Document Type: Article

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