Natural and engineered hydroxyectoine production based on the Pseudomonas stutzeri ectABCD-ask gene cluster

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1368-1374

  Seip, Britta ^a   Galinski, Erwin A ^a   Kurz, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS GENE CLUSTER; CO-SOLUTES; COMPATIBLE SOLUTES; DE NOVO PRODUCTION; E. COLI; GENE CLUSTERS; HETEROLOGOUS PRODUCTION; INHIBITORY EFFECT; LOW SALINITY; PRODUCT PROCESSING; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

BIOCHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

GENES;

BETAINE; DIAMINO ACID; HYDROXYECTOINE; TREHALOSE;

BACTERIUM; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITOR; SALINITY; SALT; SOLUTE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SALINITY;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; BETAINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SALINITY; TREHALOSE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 79953168805     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02124-10     Document Type: Article

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