Engineering a non-native hydrogen production pathway into Escherichia coli via a cyanobacterial [NiFe] hydrogenase

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 445-453

  Wells, Mark A ^a,b   Mercer, James ^b   Mott, Richard A ^b   Pereira Medrano, Ana G ^a,b   Burja, Adam M ^a   Radianingtyas, Helia ^a   Wright, Phillip C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b The Sheffield Bio incubator   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

NiFe hydrogenase; Biofuels; Escherichia coli; Hydrogen; Metabolic engineering; Synechocystis

Indexed keywords

[NIFE]-HYDROGENASE; E. COLI; ELECTRON TRANSFER; HYDROGEN YIELDS; HYDROGENASE ACTIVITY; HYDROGENASES; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR HYDROGEN; NON-NATIVE; OPTIMISATIONS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN; LAKES; METABOLISM;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN; NICKEL IRON HYDROGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; COUPLING FACTOR; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATURATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORMIC ACIDS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; NAD; NADP; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 79958754584     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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