Engineering the fatty acid metabolic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for advanced biofuel production

Metabolic Engineering Communications

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 58-66

  Tang, Xiaoling ^a   Lee, Jaslyn ^a   Chen, Wei Ning ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fatty acid biosynthesis; Fatty acid derivatives; Metabolic engineering; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; FATTY ACID;

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATABOLISM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84933506269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22140301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meteno.2015.06.005     Document Type: Review

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