Optimization of a heterologous pathway for the production of flavonoids from glucose

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 392-400

  Santos, Christine Nicole S ^a   Koffas, Mattheos ^b   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Flavonoids; Metabolic engineering; Naringenin; Pathway balancing

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA LYASE; CERULENIN; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; CHALCONES; E. COLI; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ENZYME SOURCES; GENE EXPRESSION LEVELS; ISOMERASES; L-TYROSINE; MEDIA FORMULATIONS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL PROCESS; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; NARINGENIN; P-COUMARIC ACID; PATHWAY BALANCING;

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; STRAIN;

FLAVONOIDS;

4 COUMARATE COENZYME A LIGASE; CHALCONE ISOMERASE; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; FLAVONOID; GLUCOSE; ISOMERASE; LIGASE; LYASE; NARINGENIN; TYROSINE; TYROSINE AMMONIA LYASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; FLAVANONES; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANT PROTEINS; PUERARIA; SWEETENING AGENTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79958715193     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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