Enhanced polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) production via the coexpressed phaCAB and vgb genes controlled by arabinose PBAD promoter in Escherichia coli

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 158-167

  Horng, Y T ^a   Chang, K C ^a,b   Chien, C C ^c   Wei, Y H ^c   Sun, Y M ^c   Soo, P C ^a,c  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

PhaCAB; Polyhydroxybutyrate; Vgb

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FERMENTATION; GENE ENCODING;

ARTIFICIAL OPERONS; CELL DRY WEIGHT; COEXPRESSED; E. COLI; EXPRESSION LEVELS; FERMENTATION PROCESS; HAEMOGLOBINS; PHB PRODUCTION; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; POLYHYDROXYBUTYRATE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RALSTONIA EUTROPHA; RECOMBINANT STRAINS; VGB GENES; VITREOSCILLA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHACAB PROTEIN; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); PROTEIN BAD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VGB PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONE; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; DRY WEIGHT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; VITREOSCILLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; VITREOSCILLA STERCORARIA;

EID: 74049136012     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2009.02772.x     Document Type: Article

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