Postgenomic approaches to using corynebacteria as biocatalysts

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2012, Pages 521-550

  Vertés, Alain A ^a   Inui, Masayuki ^a   Yukawa, Hideaki ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

genome engineering; primary and secondary metabolites; reverse genetic engineering; whole cell biocatalysts

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL VECTOR; CITRATE SYNTHASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; LYSINE; MALIC ACID; OXALOACETIC ACID; OXOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TRANSALDOLASE; TRANSKETOLASE; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOCATALYST; CARBON SOURCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYMES; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS;

CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 84872231830     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-010312-105506     Document Type: Article

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