High-level production of the industrial product Lycopene by the photosynthetic Bacterium rhodospirillum rubrum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7205-7215

  Wang, Guo Shu ^a   Grammel, Hartmut ^b,c   Abou Aisha, Khaled ^a,d   Sägesser, Rudolf ^a   Ghosh, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c Biberach University of Applied Science   (Germany)

^d GERMAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL EVIDENCES; DESATURATION; DOWNSTREAM-PROCESSING; DRY WEIGHT; END-PRODUCTS; GENE CLUSTERS; GENE PRODUCTS; GROWTH MEDIUM; HIGH CELL DENSITY; HIGH-LEVEL PRODUCTION; IN-VIVO; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; KANAMYCINS; LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX; LYCOPENE PRODUCTION; LYCOPENES; NEUROSPORENE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIAS; PHYTOENE; PHYTOENE DESATURASE; PURPLE BACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; WILD TYPES;

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

PIGMENTS;

CAROTENOID; LYCOPENE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH RATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DARKNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAROTENOIDS; CULTURE MEDIA; DARKNESS; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 84868382782     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00545-12     Document Type: Article

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