Pathway and protein engineering approaches to produce novel and commodity small molecules

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1137-1143

  Bhan, Namita ^a,b   Xu, Peng ^a,b   Koffas, Mattheos A G ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'OMICS' TECHNOLOGIES; NOVEL PROTEINS; PATHWAY ENGINEERINGS; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SIDE PRODUCTS; SMALL MOLECULES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; PROTEINS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

MOLECULES;

ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUICIDE SUBSTRATE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84887624536     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.02.019     Document Type: Review

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