A review of metabolic and enzymatic engineering strategies for designing and optimizing performance of microbial cell factories

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 91-99

  Fisher, Amanda K ^a,b   Freedman, Benjamin G ^a   Bevan, David R ^b   Senger, Ryan S ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Docking; Enzyme engineering; Genome scale model; Metabolic engineering; Microbial cell factory; Molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920880193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20010370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2014.08.010     Document Type: Review

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