Assembly of highly standardized gene fragments for high-level production of porphyrins in E. Coli

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 274-282

  Nielsen, Morten T ^a,b,c   Madsen, Karina M ^a   Seppälä, Susanna ^a   Christensen, Ulla ^a   Riisberg, Lone ^a   Harrison, Scott J ^a   Møller, Birger Lindberg ^a,b,c   Nørholm, Morten H H ^a,b  

^a Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

^b Plant Biochemistry Laboratory   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

biobricks; molecular cloning; porphyrin bioengineering; synthetic biology; uracil excision cloning

Indexed keywords

PORPHYRIN; PROTOPORPHYRIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PORPHYRINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84925625544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500055u     Document Type: Article

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