Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli to optimize melanin synthesis from glucose

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chávez Béjar, María I ^a   Balderas Hernandez, Victor E ^b   Gutiérrez Alejandre, Aída ^c   Martinez, Alfredo ^a   Bolívar, Francisco ^a   Gosset, Guillermo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE ZACATECAS   (Mexico)

^c Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Facultad de Quimica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; L tyrosine; Melanin; Metabolic engineering; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

EUMELANIN; GLUCOSE; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTMELA PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYMER; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MELANOGENESIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRESSOR GENE; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; MELANINS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PLASMIDS; TYROSINE;

EID: 84887400815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-108     Document Type: Article

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