Protein engineering of the transcriptional activator FhlA to enhance hydrogen production in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5639-5646

  Sanchez Torres, Viviana ^a   Maeda, Toshinari ^a,c   Wood, Thomas K ^a,b  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR PRONE PCR; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROGENASES; MIXED ACID FERMENTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PRODUCTION; RANDOM MUTAGENESIS; SATURATION MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

AMINATION; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS PRODUCERS; GENE ENCODING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; ORGANIC ACIDS; TRANSCRIPTION;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROGEN; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATOR FHLA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROGEN; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC CODE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FORMIC ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROGEN; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UP-REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 69449088007     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00638-09     Document Type: Article

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