Recent progress in metabolic engineering for the production of biofuels and biochemicals from renewable sources with particular emphasis on catabolite regulation and its modulation

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1409-1417

  Yao, Ruilian ^a   Shimizu, Kazuyuki ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biochemicals; Biofuels; Carbon cataboltite repression; Lignocellulose; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; CARBON; CELLULOSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; LIGNIN; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MODULATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SUGARS;

BIOCHEMICALS; BIOFUELS AND BIOCHEMICALS; CARBON CATABOLITE REPRESSION; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; RECENT PROGRESS; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84882918390     PISSN: 13595113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2013.02.032     Document Type: Article

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