Engineering of recombinant Escherichia coli cells co-expressing poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) synthetase and glutamate racemase for differential yielding of γ-PGA

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 675-684

  Cao, Mingfeng ^a,b   Geng, Weitao ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Sun, Jibin ^b   Wang, Shufang ^a   Feng, Jun ^a   Zheng, Ping ^b   Jiang, Anna ^b   Song, Cunjiang ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tianjin Airport Economic Area   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLYLPOLYGLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMATE RACEMASE; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; RACEMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOENGINEERING; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRODUCTIVITY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID ISOMERASES; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID;

EID: 84885758706     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12075     Document Type: Article

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