Constitutive expression of selected genes from the pentose phosphate and aromatic pathways increases the shikimic acid yield in high-glucose batch cultures of an Escherichia coli strain lacking PTS and pykF

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rodriguez, Alberto ^a   Martínez, Juan A ^a   Báez Viveros, José L ^b   Flores, Noemí ^a   Hernández Chávez, Georgina ^a   Ramírez, Octavio T ^a   Gosset, Guillermo ^a   Bolivar, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aromatic compounds; Escherichia coli; pykF; Shikimic acid; Synthetic operon

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; AROMATIC COMPOUND; GLUCOSE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PYRUVATE KINASE; PYRUVATE KINASE I; SHIKIMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BATCH PROCESS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FED BATCH FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC CODE; GLYCOLYSIS; LACTOSE OPERON; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; YEAST;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOREACTORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PYRUVATE KINASE; SHIKIMIC ACID;

EID: 84884693506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-86     Document Type: Article

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