Engineering of an Escherichia coli strain for the production of 3-methyl-1-butanol

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5769-5775

  Connor, Michael R ^a   Liao, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD ADDITIVES; FUEL ADDITIVES; GLUCOSE; ORGANIC ACIDS; TECHNOLOGY;

1-BUTANOL; AMINO ACID BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BIO FUELS; E. COLI; FEEDBACK INHIBITION; FUSEL ALCOHOLS; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT; YEAST FERMENTATIONS;

ALCOHOLS;

AMINO ACID; FUEL; GLUCOSE; ISOPENTYL ALCOHOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LEUCINE; PENTANOL; VALINE;

ALCOHOL; AMINO ACID; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; INHIBITION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PRODUCTIVITY; YEAST;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; YEAST; BACTERIAL GENE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPERON; PLASMID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERMENTATION; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSE; LEUCINE; OPERON; PENTANOLS; PLASMIDS; VALINE;

EID: 52649153633     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00468-08     Document Type: Article

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