Metabolic engineering of carotenoid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli by ordered gene assembly in Bacillus subtilis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1355-1361

  Nishizaki, Tomoko ^a,c   Tsuge, Kenji ^a,b   Itaya, Mitsuhiro ^a,b   Doi, Nobuhide ^a   Yanagawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; RNA;

CAROTENOID CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASMID TRANSFORMATION SYSTEMS;

HYDROCARBONS;

CAROTENOID; MESSENGER RNA; ZEAXANTHIN;

CAROTENOID; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLASMID; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; ORDERED GENE ASSEMBLY; PANTOEA; PANTOEA ANANATIS; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CAROTENOIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; OPERON; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; XANTHOPHYLLS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PANTOEA ANANATIS;

EID: 33847198656     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02268-06     Document Type: Article

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