Examining the feasibility of bulk commodity production in Escherichia coli

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 585-596

  Vickers, Claudia E ^a   Klein Marcuschamer, Daniel ^a,b,c   Krömer, Jens O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Industrial biotechnology; Metabolic engineering; Metabolic network analysis; Strain engineering; Techno economic analysis

Indexed keywords

1 ,3 PROPANEDIOL; BIOPROCESSES; CURRENT PRODUCTION; E. COLI; INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY; METABOLIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; POLY-3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; PRODUCTION PROCESS; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; STRAIN ENGINEERING; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL YIELD;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

1,3 PROPANEDIOL; 1,3-PROPANEDIOL; ALCOHOL; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLY-BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; POLYESTER; PROPANEDIOL DERIVATIVE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; POLYESTERS; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84858005816     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-011-0821-3     Document Type: Review

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