Production of UDP-N-acetytglucosamine by coupling metabolically engineered bacteria

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 479-483

  Tabata, Kazuhiko ^a   Koizumi, Satoshi ^a   Endo, Tetsuo ^a   Ozaki, Akio ^a  

^a KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glucose 1,6 diphosphate; Metabolic engineering; Sugar nucleotide; UDP N acetylglucosamine

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUCOSE 1,6 BISPHOSPHATE; MUTASE; OROTIC ACID; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

CORYNEBACTERIUM AMMONIAGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034079020     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005627820455     Document Type: Article

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