Industrial biotechnology: Tools and applications

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1725-1739

  Tang, Weng Lin ^a   Zhao, Huimin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocatalysis; Bioenergy; Metabolic engineering; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES; BIO-ENERGY; BIOCATALYSIS; DOWNSTREAM-PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PROPANEDIOLS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REDUCED ENERGY; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; VALUE-ADDED CHEMICALS; WASTE GENERATION;

AGRICULTURE; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENGINEERING; GAS EMISSIONS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LACTIC ACID; LEAKAGE (FLUID); METABOLISM; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROTEINS;

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

1,3 PROPANEDIOL; BIODIESEL; BIOFUEL; BUTANOL; GLYCEROL; LACTIC ACID; PACLITAXEL;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BATCH FERMENTATION; BIOCATALYST; BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOMICS; INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

BIOCATALYSIS; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOMICS; INDUSTRY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 73849092565     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.200900127     Document Type: Review

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