New pathways for bacterial polythioesters

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 85-92

  Wübbeler, Jan Hendrik ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PRODUCTION; BUILDING BLOCKES; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; GREEN CHEMISTRY; POLYTHIOESTERS; PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS; RALSTONIA EUTROPHA; WHITE BIOTECHNOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BIOPOLYMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

BIOPOLYMER; POLYTHIOESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESTER; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ADVENELLA MIMIGARDEFORDENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CATABOLISM; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS; ALCALIGENACEAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; METABOLISM;

ALCALIGENACEAE; BIOPOLYMERS; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTERS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84897862485     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.02.017     Document Type: Review

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