Reengineering of a corynebacterium glutamicum L-arginine and L-citrulline producer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1635-1641

  Ikeda, Masato ^a,b   Mitsuhashi, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Kenji ^a   Hayashi, Mikiro ^a  

^a Kyowa Hakko Bio Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS GENES; CITRULLINE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; E. COLI; ENHANCED PERFORMANCE; GENETIC INFORMATIONS; L ARGININES; L LYSINES; POINT MUTATIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS; WILD TYPES; WILD-TYPE STRAINS;

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORGANIC ACIDS; POSITIVE IONS; REENGINEERING;

STRAIN;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOENGINEERING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION;

ARGININE; CITRULLINE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 62149110053     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02027-08     Document Type: Article

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