Orthogonal Fatty Acid Biosynthetic Pathway Improves Fatty Acid Ethyl Ester Production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 808-814

  Eriksen, Dawn T ^a,b   HamediRad, Mohammad ^a   Yuan, Yongbo ^a   Zhao, Huimin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Institute for Genomic Biology Energy Biosciences Institute University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

advanced biofuels; biodiesel; fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs); fatty acid synthase; orthogonal fatty acid synthesis; pathway and metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID ESTER; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; PALMITIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; STEARIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM AMMONIAGENES; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GORDONIA; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MARINOBACTER HYDROCARBONOCLASTICUS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; BREVIBACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PLASMID;

ACTINOMYCES; CORYNEBACTERIUM AMMONIAGENES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BREVIBACTERIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE, TYPE I; FATTY ACIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84937008113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500319p     Document Type: Article

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