Engineering yeasts for xylose metabolism

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 320-326

  Jeffries, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; FERMENTATION; GENES; GLOBAL WARMING; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MUTAGENESIS; SYNTHETIC FUELS; YEAST;

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; COMMERCIAL FERMENTATION; FLUX ANALYSIS; RATE-LIMITING STEPS;

XYLOSE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALCOHOL; CELLULASE; CITRIC ACID; OXYGEN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE; XYLITOL; XYLOSE;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIOENGINEERING; CALCULATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOICHIOMETRY; YEAST;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELLULASE; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; XYLOSE; YEASTS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33744914986     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2006.05.008     Document Type: Review

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