Impairing and monitoring glucose catabolite repression in L-carnitine biosynthesis

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1286-1296

  Sevilla, A ^a   Canovas M ^a   Keller, D ^a   Reimers, S ^a   Iborra, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; BIOSYNTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METABOLISM;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; GLUCOSE CATABOLITE;

GLUCOSE;

CARNITINE; CYCLIC AMP; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOREACTORS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARNITINE; CYCLIC AMP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 37149054076     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp070213t     Document Type: Article

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