Tailored fatty acid synthesis via dynamic control of fatty acid elongation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 11290-11295

  Torella, Joseph P ^a   Ford, Tyler J ^a   Kim, Scott N ^a   Chen, Amanda M ^a   Way, Jeffrey C ^b   Silver, Pamela A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemicals; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

CERULENIN; FATTY ACID; HYDROCARBON; KETOACYL SYNTHASE; OCTANOIC ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID; POLYKETIDE; SYNTHETASE; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

BIOCHEMICALS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROLYSIS;

EID: 84879960190     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307129110     Document Type: Article

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