Synergy as design principle for metabolic engineering of 1-propanol production in Escherichia coli

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-22

  Shen, Claire R ^a,b   Liao, James C ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Metabolic engineering; Synergy; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

1-PROPANOL; COFACTOR PREFERENCES; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DRIVING FORCES; FLUX RATIO; GENE DELETION; HIGHER YIELD; HOST ORGANISM; METABOLIC CHARACTERISTICS; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; PRODUCTION YIELD; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; SYNERGY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TCA CYCLE; THEORETICAL YIELD; YIELD MODELS;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOFUELS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; PRODUCTIVITY; PROPANOL;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

2 KETOBUTYRATE; BUTYRIC ACID; PROPANOL; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SYNTHESIS;

1-PROPANOL; BUTYRATES; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSE; MALATES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874796954     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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