Recent advances in engineering the central carbon metabolism of industrially important bacteria

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Papagianni, Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; ACTINORHODINE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CLAVULANIC ACID; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYOXYLIC ACID; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CELL GROWTH; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLYCOLYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES CLAVULIGERUS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCONEOGENESIS; LACTOBACILLACEAE; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 84862191831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-11-50     Document Type: Review

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