Biosynthesis of novel thermoplastic polythioesters by engineered Escherichia coli

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 236-239

  Lütke Eversloh, Tina ^a   Fischer, Andreas ^a   Remminghorst, Uwe ^a   Kawada, Jumpei ^b   Marchessault, Robert H ^b   Bögershausen, Ansgar ^a   Kalwei, Martin ^a   Eckert, Hellmut ^a   Reichelt, Rudolf ^a   Liu, Shuang Jiang ^a,c   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELASTOMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOPLASTICS;

CYTOPLASM;

ESTERS;

BIOPOLYMER; ESTER;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOPOLYMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTERS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 0142200413     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat773     Document Type: Article

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