Metabolic engineering of cobalamin (vitamin B12) production in Bacillus megaterium

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-37

  Biedendieck, Rebekka ^a   Malten, Marco ^b   Barg, Heiko ^c   Bunk, Boyke ^d   Martens, Jan Henning ^e   Deery, Evelyne ^a   Leech, Helen ^a   Warren, Martin J ^a   Jahn, Dieter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NOVOZYMES A S   (Denmark)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e ALEXIS Corporation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COBALTOCHELATASE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; COPROPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; HEME; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; METHYLASPARTATE MUTASE; MUTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE TRIPHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; TETRAPYRROLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROPORPHYRINOGEN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; CBIX GENE; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FNR GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEMA GENE; HEMZ GENE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC STRESS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; REGULATOR GENE; RIBOSWITCH; SIRA GENE;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; VITAMIN B 12;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; SEIRA;

EID: 77953584055     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2009.00125.x     Document Type: Article

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