Toward design-based engineering of industrial microbes

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 255-262

  Tyo, Keith EJ ^a   Kocharin, Kanokarn ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENGINEERING; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PICHIA PASTORIS; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; METABOLOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEOME; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77952888809     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.02.001     Document Type: Review

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