Engineering biosynthetic pathways: New routes to chiral amino acids

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 120-124

  Fotheringham, Ian ^a  

^a Biosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033955904     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(99)00062-9     Document Type: Review

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