Metabolic engineering of isoprenoids

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 27-39

  Barkovich, Robert ^a   Liao, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ISOPRENOID; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NATURAL PRODUCT; SYNTHETIC DNA;

EID: 0034787233     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mben.2000.0168     Document Type: Review

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