Trade-offs in engineering sugar utilization pathways for titratable control

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 141-149

  Afroz, Taliman ^a   Biliouris, Konstantinos ^b   Boykin, Kelsey E ^a   Kaznessis, Yiannis ^b   Beisel, Chase L ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon catabolism; Escherichia coli; feedback; inducible systems; linearization; systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; SUGAR; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ARABINOSE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84924272465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb400162z     Document Type: Article

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