Improving Fatty Acid Availability for Bio-Hydrocarbon Production in Escherichia coli by Metabolic Engineering

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Fengming ^a,b   Chen, Yu ^a   Levine, Robert ^a   Lee, Kilho ^a   Yuan, Yingjin ^b   Lin, Xiaoxia Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; GLYOXYLIC ACID; HYDROCARBON; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON METABOLISM; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYOA GENE; DLD GENE; DRY WEIGHT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; ICLR GENE; LIPID STORAGE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUOA GENE; PTA GENE; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 84885733328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078595     Document Type: Article

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