Production of lycopene by metabolically-engineered Escherichia coli

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1515-1522

  Sun, Tao ^a,b   Miao, Liangtian ^a,b   Li, Qingyan ^b   Dai, Guanping ^a,b   Lu, Fuping ^a   Liu, Tao ^b   Zhang, Xueli ^b   Ma, Yanhe ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Isoprenoid biosynthesis; Lycopene; NADPH; Ribosome binding sites; Carotene

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE ENCODING; MACROMOLECULES;

1-DEOXY-D-XYLULOSE-5-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; FED-BATCH FERMENTATION; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE (IDI); ISOPRENOID BIOSYNTHESIS; LYCOPENES; NADPH; RIBOSOME-BINDING SITES; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CAROTENOID; LYCOPENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM;

CAROTENOIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS;

EID: 84902287559     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-014-1543-0     Document Type: Article

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