High-level production of porphyrins in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli: Systematic extension of a pathway assembled from overexpressed genes involved in heme biosynthesis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4875-4883

  Kwon, Seok Joon ^a   De Boer, Arjo L ^a   Petri, Ralf ^a   Schmidt Dannert, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; PORPHYRINS;

BIOLOGICAL SENSORS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FERROCHELATASE; HEME; PORPHYRIN; PORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

BIOENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSENSOR; CATALYST; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEME BIOSYNTHESIS; HEME SYNTHESIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; IRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPECTROSCOPY; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

5-AMINOLEVULINATE SYNTHETASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERROCHELATASE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEME; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; PORPHYRINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0041528152     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4875-4883.2003     Document Type: Article

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