Improving microbial biogasoline production in Escherichia coli using tolerance engineering

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Foo, Jee Loon ^a,b,c   Jensen, Heather M ^b,d   Dahl, Robert H ^e   George, Kevin ^b,d   Keasling, Jay D ^b,d,e   Lee, Taek Soon ^b,d   Leong, Susanna ^c,f   Mukhopadhyay, Aindrila ^b,d  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^f SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPENTENOL; METHIONINE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOFUEL; PENTANOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOGASOLINE PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FPR GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GIDB GENE; IBPA GENE; MDLB GENE; METR GENE; NONHUMAN; NRDH GENE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SOXS GENE; TOLERANCE ENGINEERING; UPREGULATION; YQHD GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOFUELS; DRUG TOLERANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENTANOLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84920903437     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01932-14.     Document Type: Article

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