Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production of novel cyanophycins with an extended range of constituent amino acids

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3437-3446

  Steinle, Anna ^a   Bergander, Klaus ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE; CITRULLINE; CYANOPHYCIN; EXTENDED RANGE; L-ASPARTIC ACID; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE STRAINS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP; SYNTHETASE;

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYMERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

STRAIN;

ARGININE; CITRULLINE; CYANOPHYCIN; ORNITHINE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYMER;

AMINO ACID; BIODEGRADATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; POLYMER; RECOMBINATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITRULLINE; GENE DELETION; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORNITHINE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 66249115286     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00383-09     Document Type: Article

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