Identification and use of an alkane transporter plug-in for applications in biocatalysis and whole-cell biosensing of alkanes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Grant, Chris ^a   Deszcz, Dawid ^a   Wei, Yu Chia ^a   Martínez Torres, Rubéns Julio ^a   Morris, Phattaraporn ^a   Folliard, Thomas ^a   Sreenivasan, Rakesh ^a   Ward, John ^a   Dalby, Paul ^a   Woodley, John M ^b   Baganz, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; FATTY ALCOHOL;

BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSGENE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ALKANES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ALCOHOLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84905234266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05844     Document Type: Article

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