Metabolic engineering of d-xylose pathway in Clostridium beijerinckii to optimize solvent production from xylose mother liquid

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 569-578

  Xiao, Han ^a,b   Li, Zhilin ^c   Jiang, Yu ^a,c   Yang, Yunliu ^a   Jiang, Weihong ^a   Gu, Yang ^a   Yang, Sheng ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Shanghai Research and Development Center of Industrial Biotechnology   (China)

Author keywords

Clostridium beijerinckii; D xylose utilization; Xylose mother liquid; XylR inactivation; XylT overexpression

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; D-XYLOSE; HIGHER YIELD; LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIAL; OVER-EXPRESSION; PENTOSE SUGARS; SOLVENT PRODUCTION; WILD-TYPE STRAIN; XYLR INACTIVATION;

ACETONE; ALCOHOLS; ETHANOL; GENE ENCODING; LIQUIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

XYLOSE;

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; BUTANOL; HEXOSE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PENTOSE; SOLVENT; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; FERMENTATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; SYMPORTERS; XYLOSE;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII;

EID: 84865613048     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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