Production of rubber-like polymers by microorganisms

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-270

  Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 POLYISOPRENE; BIOPOLYMER; CARBON; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; ELASTOMER; ISOMERASE; ISOPRENE; ISOPRENOID; METHYLERYTHRITOL PHOSPHATE; MEVALONIC ACID; MICROBIAL ENZYME; PHOSPHATE; POLYESTER; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; POLYMER; RUBBER; THIOESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BURKHOLDERIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLORELLA; CROSS LINKING; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ECONOMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FERMENTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GREEN ALGA; HEVEA; HYDROPHOBICITY; METABOLISM; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERIZATION; PROKARYOTE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS OLEOVORANS; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; STREPTOMYCES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; TREE; VERTEBRATE;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGLENA GRACILIS; HEVEA; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS OLEOVORANS; STREPTOMYCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037927755     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(03)00061-4     Document Type: Review

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