Effect of acetate formation pathway and long chain fatty acid CoA-ligase on the free fatty acid production in E. coli expressing acy-ACP thioesterase from Ricinus communis

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 380-387

  Li, Mai ^a   Zhang, Xiujun ^a   Agrawal, Arpita ^a   San, Ka Yiu ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyl ACP thioesterases; E. coli; Fatty acid compositions; Fatty acid production

Indexed keywords

ACETATE KINASE; ACETYL-COA; ACID PRODUCTION; ACYL-ACP; DOUBLE MUTANTS; E. COLI; FATTY ACID COMPOSITION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FORMATION PATHWAYS; FREE FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE YIELDS; LIPID BIOSYNTHESIS; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; MICROBIAL BIOSYNTHESIS; MUTANT STRAIN; OVER-EXPRESSION; PRODUCTION PATHWAYS; PYRUVATE OXIDASE; PYRUVATES; RENEWABLE CARBON SOURCES; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SCREENING METHODS; THEORETICAL YIELD; THIOESTERASES; TRIPLE MUTANTS; WILD TYPES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE;

VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ACETATE KINASE; ACETIC ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; PALMITOYL PROTEIN THIOESTERASE; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PYRUVATE OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIPID COMPOSITION; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RICINUS COMMUNIS; WILD TYPE;

ACETATE KINASE; ACETATES; COENZYME A LIGASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; MUTATION; PALMITOYL-COA HYDROLASE; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PYRUVATE OXIDASE; RICINUS;

RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 84862166207     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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