Towards a synthetic biology of the stress-response and the tolerance phenotype: Systems understanding and engineering of the clostridium acetobutylicum stress-response and tolerance to toxic metabolites

Systems Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 9789400745346, Issue , 2013, Pages 193-219

  Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a   Alsaker, Keith V ^b  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b Amyris Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acetate; Anaerobic; Bioenergy; Biofuels; Biorefinery; Butanol; Butyrate; Cellulosic material; Central metabolism; Chemicals; Clostridium acetobutylicum; DNA libraries; Engineering; Evolutionary engineering; Gene expression; Heat shock proteins; Membrane modifications; Metabolic model; Multigenic phenotypes; Nitrogen metabolism; Regulatory model; Renewable resources; Stress regulon; Stress response; Synthetic biology; Systems biology; Tolerance; Toxic metabolites; Transcriptional stressome

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CHEMICALS; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; PROTEINS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ACETATE; ANAEROBICS; BIO-ENERGY; BIOREFINERIES; BUTYRATE; CELLULOSIC MATERIAL; CENTRAL METABOLISMS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DNA LIBRARY; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; GENES EXPRESSION; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MEMBRANE MODIFICATION; METABOLIC MODELLING; MULTIGENIC PHENOTYPE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; REGULATORY MODEL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; STRESS REGULON; STRESSES RESPONSE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TOXIC METABOLITES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL STRESSOME;

BIOFUELS;

EID: 84931469092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4534-6_7     Document Type: Chapter

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