Improving the tolerance of Escherichia coli to medium-chain fatty acid production

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-7

  Sherkhanov, Saken ^a   Korman, Tyler P ^a   Bowie, James U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Fatty acid metabolism; Membrane composition; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOFUELS; CHAINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

COMMODITY CHEMICALS; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FREE FATTY ACID; LIPID BIOSYNTHESIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MEDIUM-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; MEMBRANE COMPOSITION; MEMBRANE LIPID COMPOSITION;

FATTY ACIDS;

MEDIUM CHAIN FATTY ACID; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; FATTY ACID; PALMITOYL COENZYME A HYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UMBELLULARIA CALIFORNICA; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; UMBELLULARIA;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PALMITOYL-COA HYDROLASE; UMBELLULARIA;

EID: 84903202819     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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