Highly Efficient Biotransformation of Eugenol to Ferulic Acid and Further Conversion to Vanillin in Recombinant Strains of Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6569-6576

  Overhage, Jörg ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a   Priefert, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENES; ORGANIC ACIDS;

BIOTRANSFORMATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALCOHOL OXIDASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CONIFERYL ALCOHOL; DNA; EUGENOL; FERULIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; OXYGENASE; RNA; VANILLIN;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM SIMPLICISSIMUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZALDEHYDES; COUMARIC ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGENOL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIUM; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM SIMPLICISSIMUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 10744220225     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6569-6576.2003     Document Type: Article

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