Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for biosynthesis of hyaluronic acid

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-32

  Yu, Huimin ^a,b   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial operon; Hyaluronic acid; Metabolic engineering; Metabolic pathway; Rare codon; Recombinant E. coli

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL OPERON; CARBON SOURCES; HYALURONIC ACIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLASMID BACKBONES;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON; GENE ENCODING; METABOLISM; POLYSACCHARIDES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CARBON; HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIC ACID SYNTHASE; MAGNESIUM; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE URIDYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALF GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GLMU GENE; HASB GENE; HASC GENE; HASD GENE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPHAS A GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UGD GENE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYALURONIC ACID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPERON; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS;

EID: 37349103842     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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