Inactivation of isocitrate lyase leads to increased production of medium-chain-length poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) in Pseudomonas putida

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 909-913

  Klinke, Stefan ^a   Dauner, Michael ^a   Scott, George ^a   Kessler, Birgit ^a   Witholt, Bernard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLYOXYLIC ACID; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOCITRATE LYASE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; POLYMER; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSPOSON;

GLUCONATES; GLYOXYLATES; HEPTANOATES; ISOCITRATE LYASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; POLYESTERS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0034104601     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.909-913.2000     Document Type: Article

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