Engineering metabolism and product formation in Corynebacterium glutamicum by coordinated gene overexpression

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-41

  Koffas, Mattheos A G ^a   Jung, Gyoo Yeol ^a   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid fermentation; Aspartate kinase; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Lysine; Metabolic engineering; Pyruvate carboxylase

Indexed keywords

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 0038514074     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-7176(03)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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