Metabolic engineering of β-lactam production

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 56-69

  Thykaer, Jette ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Genetic engineering; Metabolic engineering; Strain improvement; Lactam production

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037500087     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-7176(03)00003-X     Document Type: Article

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