Expanding the product profile of a microbial alkane biosynthetic pathway

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-62

  Harger, Matthew ^a   Zheng, Lei ^a   Moon, Austin ^b   Ager, Casey ^a   An, Ju Hye ^a   Choe, Chris ^b   Lai, Yi Ling ^b   Mo, Benjamin ^c   Zong, David ^c   Smith, Matthew D ^a   Egbert, Robert G ^d   Mills, Jeremy H ^a   Baker, David ^a,b   Pultz, Ingrid Swanson ^b   Siegel, Justin B ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkane biosynthesis; Biofuels; Fatty acid biosynthesis; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; FABH2 ENZYME; FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ALKANES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFUELS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; PETROLEUM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84874864639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb300061x     Document Type: Article

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