Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for L-tyrosine production by expression of genes coding for the chorismate mutase domain of the native chorismate mutase-prephenate dehydratase and a cyclohexadienyl dehydrogenase from Zymomonas mobilis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3284-3290

  Chávez Béjar, María I ^a   Lara, Alvaro R ^a,b   López, Hezraí ^a   Hernández Chávez, Georgina ^a   Martinez, Alfredo ^a   Ramírez, Octavio T ^a   Bolívar, Francisco ^a   Gosset, Guillermo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE PROCESOS Y TECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM;

CARBON FLOW; INHIBITION-INSENSITIVE ENZYMES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; CHORISMATE MUTASE; CYCLOHEXADIENYL DEHYDROGENASE; PREPHENATE DEHYDRATASE; TYROSINE; GLUCOSE; PREPHENATE DEHYDROGENASE;

BIOREACTOR; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLASMID; ZYMOMONAS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PREPHENATE DEHYDRATASE; PREPHENATE DEHYDROGENASE; TYROSINE; ZYMOMONAS;

EID: 44249098772     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02456-07     Document Type: Article

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