Design and analysis of synthetic carbon fixation pathways

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8889-8894

  Bar Even, Arren ^a   Noor, Elad ^a   Lewis, Nathan E ^a,b   Milo, Ron ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological optimization; Carboxylation; Metabolic engineering; Photosynthesis; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FIXATION; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME STABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARBON; KINETICS; NADP; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77952717854     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907176107     Document Type: Article

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