Isolation of improved free fatty acid overproducing strains of Escherichia coli via nile red based high-throughput screening

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-23

  Hoover, Spencer W ^a,b   Tyler Youngquist, J ^a,b   Angart, Phil A ^a,b   Withers, Sydnor T ^b   Lennen, Rebecca M ^a,b   Pfleger, Brian F ^a,b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

biofuels; Escherichia coli; fatty acid; high throughput screen; metabolic engineering; Nile red

Indexed keywords

ACID PRODUCTS; ATTRACTIVE STRATEGIES; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; FREE FATTY ACID; GENETIC SELECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING; ITERATIVE FASHION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NILE RED; PETRODIESEL; RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS; SECONDARY SCREENING; STRAIN OPTIMIZATION; THEORETICAL YIELD; TRANSPORTATION FUELS;

BIOFUELS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSE; HYDROCARBONS; THROUGHPUT;

FATTY ACIDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84855863085     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.10599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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