Microbial chemical factories: Recent advances in pathway engineering for synthesis of value added chemicals

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 488-494

  Dhamankar, Himanshu ^a   Prather, Kristala LJ ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 KETOISOVALERATE DECARBOXYLASE IV; CARBOXYLYASE; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; GERANYLGERANYL PYROPHOSPHATE; LEVOPIMARADIENE SYNTHASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) TRANSHYDROGENASE; OXOACID; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE SYNTHASE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOCATALYST; BIOMASS CONVERSION; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RENEWABLE ENERGY; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COENZYMES; ENZYMES; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 80052126826     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2011.05.001     Document Type: Review

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