Metabolic engineering of the nonmevalonate isopentenyl diphosphate synthesis pathway in Escherichia coli enhances lycopene production

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 408-415

  Kim, Seon Won ^a   Keasling, J D ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Isopentenyl diphosphate; Lycopene

Indexed keywords

ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE; LYCOPENE; MEVALONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL PROTECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; ARABINOSE; CAROTENOIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HEMITERPENES; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PENTOSEPHOSPHATES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFERASES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0035916370     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0290(20000220)72:4<408::AID-BIT1003>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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