Engineering Escherichia coli to overproduce aromatic amino acids and derived compounds

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rodriguez, Alberto ^a   Martínez, Juan A ^a   Flores, Noemí ^a   Escalante, Adelfo ^a   Gosset, Guillermo ^a   Bolivar, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aromatic compounds; Escherichia coli; Metabolic engineering; Phenylalanine; Shikimate pathway; Synthetic biology; Systems biotechnology; Tryptophan; Tyrosine

Indexed keywords

2 PYRONE 4,6 DICARBOXYLIC ACID; 3 (3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYL)LACTIC ACID; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; AVENANTHRAMIDE DERIVATIVE; CAFFEIC ACID; DELTA TOCOTRIENOL; HYDROXYTYROSOL; NATURAL PRODUCT; PINOCEMBRINE; RESVERATROL; RETICULINE; SHIKIMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIOLACEIN;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOPROCESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PRECURSOR; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 84908134524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-014-0126-z     Document Type: Review

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