Metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria for the synthesis of commodity products

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 352-361

  Angermayr, S Andreas ^a,b   Gorchs Rovira, Aleix ^a   Hellingwerf, Klaas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRANCHING POINTS; CARBON FIXATION; COMMODITY CHEMICALS; COMMODITY PRODUCTS; INTERMEDIARY METABOLISM; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRODUCT FORMATION;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON PARTITIONING; CARBON SINK; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIGHT; METABOLISM; SYNTHESIS;

CYANOBACTERIA;

BIOFUEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; PLASTIC;

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANOBACTERIA; HUMANS; LIGHT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASTICS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84929504676     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: 18793096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.03.009     Document Type: Review

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