Negative feedback regulation of fatty acid production based on a malonyl-CoA sensor-actuator

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 132-140

  Liu, Di ^a   Xiao, Yi ^a   Evans, Bradley S ^b   Zhang, Fuzhong ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic regulation; malonyl CoA; metabolic control circuits; negative feedback; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; CARBOXYLASE; FATTY ACID; MALONYL COENZYME A; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL GROWTH; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

ACETYL-COA CARBOXYLASE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MALONYL COENZYME A; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84924239544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb400158w     Document Type: Article

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