Production of plant-specific flavanones by Escherichia coli containing an artificial gene cluster

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2699-2706

  Hwang, Eui Il ^a,b   Kaneko, Masafumi ^a   Ohnishi, Yasuo ^a   Horinouchi, Sueharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

RIBOSOME-BINDING SEQUENCE (RBS);

MICROBIOLOGY;

CHALCONE; CINNAMIC ACID; CYTOCHROME P450 ISOENZYME; FLAVANONE DERIVATIVE; ISOMERASE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; NARINGENIN; OXYGENASE; PARA COUMARIC ACID; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE; PINOCEMBRINE; TYROSINE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DNA VECTOR; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLYCYRRHIZA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PROMOTER REGION; RHODOTORULA; START CODON; STOP CODON; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COENZYME A LIGASES; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; FLAVONOIDS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PLANT; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLYCYRRHIZA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA-LYASE; PLANTS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RHODOTORULA; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCYRRHIZA; GLYCYRRHIZA ECHINATA; HELICHRYSUM PETIOLARE; NEGIBACTERIA; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037545559     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2699-2706.2003     Document Type: Article

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