Biofuel production: An odyssey from metabolic engineering to fermentation scale-up

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Hollinshead, Whitney ^a   He, Lian ^a   Tang, Yinjie J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

ATP maintenance; Hydrodynamics; Metabolic flux analysis; Proteomics; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CARBON METABOLISM; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FERMENTATION; FERMENTATION OPTIMIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEOMICS; QUORUM SENSING; SCALE UP; SHORT SURVEY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84905408748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00344     Document Type: Short Survey

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