Toward metabolic engineering in the context of system biology and synthetic biology: advances and prospects

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1109-1118

  Liu, Yanfeng ^a,b   Shin, Hyun dong ^c   Li, Jianghua ^a,b   Liu, Long ^a,b  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Synergetic Innovation Center of Food Safety and Nutrition   (China)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome scale metabolic model; Modular pathway engineering; Spatial engineering; Synthetic biology; System metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; METABOLITES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL STRAINS; CELLULAR PROPERTIES; GENOME SCALE METABOLIC MODEL; METABOLIC NETWORK; MULTIVARIATE OPTIMIZATION; NOVEL STRATEGIES; PATHWAY ENGINEERINGS; SPATIAL ENGINEERING;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ENZYME;

GENOME SCALE METABOLIC MODEL; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETICS; PHARMACEUTICS; PROCEDURES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRENDS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 84925538331     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-6298-y     Document Type: Review

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