Fermentative production of short-chain fatty acids in Escherichia coli

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 160, Issue PART 7, 2014, Pages 1513-1522

  Volker, Alexandra R ^a   Gogerty, David S ^a,b   Bartholomay, Christian ^a,c   Hennen Bierwagen, Tracie ^a   Zhu, Huilin ^a,d   Bobik, Thomas A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Global Bioenergies   (United States)

^c Pioneer Dupont   (United States)

^d WUXI APPTEC   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BUTYRIC ACID; COBAMAMIDE; ENOYL COENZYME A HYDRATASE; HEXANOIC ACID; PROPIONYL COENZYME A; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY;

EID: 84903647698     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.078329-0     Document Type: Article

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