Increased isobutanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by eliminating competing pathways and resolving cofactor imbalance

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Matsuda, Fumio ^a,b,c   Ishii, Jun ^b   Kondo, Takashi ^b,d   Ida, Kengo ^b   Tezuka, Hironori ^b   Kondo, Akihiko ^b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ehrlich pathway; Isobutanol; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Single gene deletion; Transhydrogenase like shunt

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; GLUCOSE; ISOBUTANOL; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BATCH FERMENTATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CODE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BIOFUELS; BUTANOLS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NADP TRANSHYDROGENASES; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84889061841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-119     Document Type: Article

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