Creating carotenoid diversity in E. coli cells using combinatorial and directed evolution strategies

Phytochemistry Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-74

  Schmidt Dannert, Claudia ^a   Lee, Pyung Cheon ^a   Mijts, Benjamin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Carotenoid; Combinatorial; Directed evolution

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ACYLATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DNA SHUFFLING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 33746361202     PISSN: 15687767     EISSN: 1572980X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11101-005-5465-2     Document Type: Review

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