Integrating the protein and metabolic engineering toolkits for next-generation chemical biosynthesis

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 662-672

  Pirie, Christopher M ^a   De Mey, Marjan ^a,b   Prather, Kristala L Jones ^c   Ajikumar, Parayil Kumaran ^a  

^a Manus Biosynthesis   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; FLAVONOID; PHENYLALANINE; TERPENOID;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYZER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLUBILITY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOCATALYSIS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84876589041     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb300634b     Document Type: Article

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