Design-based re-engineering of biosynthetic gene clusters: Plug-and-play in practice

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1144-1150

  Frasch, Hans Jörg ^a   Medema, Marnix H ^a   Takano, Eriko ^a,c   Breitling, Rainer ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY TECHNOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL SOURCES; BIOSYNTHETIC GENE CLUSTER; HIGH POTENTIAL; MICROBIAL GENOMES; NATURAL PRODUCTS; PLUG-AND-PLAY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

GENE EXPRESSION; MACHINERY; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOENGINEERING; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DATA MINING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOST SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BIOREACTORS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84887624961     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.03.006     Document Type: Review

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