Engineering dynamic pathway regulation using stress-response promoters

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1039-1046

  Dahl, Robert H ^a,b,c   Zhang, Fuzhong ^a,b,c,e   Alonso Gutierrez, Jorge ^a,b   Baidoo, Edward ^a,b   Batth, Tanveer S ^a,b   Redding Johanson, Alyssa M ^a,b   Petzold, Christopher J ^a,b   Mukhopadhyay, Aindrila ^a,b   Lee, Taek Soon ^a,b   Adams, Paul D ^a,b,d   Keasling, Jay D ^a,b,c,d  

^a JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY; CONSTITUTIVE PROMOTERS; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; DYNAMIC REGULATION; ENGINEERING DYNAMICS; FARNESYL PYROPHOSPHATES; STRESS RESPONSE; TOXIC INTERMEDIATES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLITES;

SENSORS;

3 HYDROXY 3 METHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENOID; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRESS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; SESQUITERPENES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84887422015     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2689     Document Type: Article

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