Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for 1-butanol and 1-propanol production via the keto-acid pathways

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 312-320

  Shen, C R ^a   Liao, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohols; Biofuels; Butanol; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; AMINATION; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; ORGANIC ACIDS; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

BUTANOL; DECARBOXYLASE; HIGHER ALCOHOLS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ENGINEERINGS; SYNTHESIS OF;

PROPANOL;

BIOFUEL; BUTANOL; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYLYASE; GLUCOSE; ISOLEUCINE; NORVALINE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXOACID; PROPANOL;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOCATALYST; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; DEREGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

1-BUTANOL; 1-PROPANOL; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GLUCOSE; KETO ACIDS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 54349114978     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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