New options to engineer biofuel microbes: Development and application of a high-throughput screening system

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-58

  Scheel, Michael ^a   Lütke Eversloh, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Butanol; Clostridium; Ethanol; Nitroblue tetrazolium

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITIES; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; COMBINATORIAL STRATEGIES; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEMS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING APPROACH; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM; SOLVENTOGENIC CLOSTRIDIA;

ACETONE; BACTERIA; BUTENES; CLOSTRIDIUM; ETHANOL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

BIOFUELS;

ACETONE; BUTANOL;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; WILD TYPE;

1-BUTANOL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFUELS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ETHANOL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED;

CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824;

EID: 84876397731     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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