Metabolic engineering in the biotechnological production of organic acids in the tricarboxylic acid cycle of microorganisms: Advances and prospects

Biotechnology Advances

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 830-841

  Yin, Xian ^a,b,c   Li, Jianghua ^a,c   Shin, Hyun dong ^d   Du, Guocheng ^a,c   Liu, Long ^a,b,c   Chen, Jian ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Synergetic Innovation Center of Food Safety and Nutrition   (China)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

C4 dicarboxylic acid; Citric acid; Fumaric acid; L Malic acid; Metabolic engineering; Oxaloacetate; Succinic acid; Tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle; Ketoglutaric acid

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; METABOLISM; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

DICARBOXYLIC ACID; FUMARIC ACIDS; L-MALIC ACID; OXALOACETATE; SUCCINIC ACIDS; TRICARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

BIOENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; METABOLISM; MICROORGANISM; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC ACID;

DICARBOXYLIC ACID;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; RHIZOPUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; RHIZOPUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84939262898     PISSN: 07349750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2015.04.006     Document Type: Review

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