Engineering E. coli central metabolism for enhanced primary metabolite production

Systems Biology and Biotechnology of Escherichia coli

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 351-376

  Bennett, George N ^a   San, Ka Yiu ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9394-4_17     Document Type: Chapter

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