Enhancing flavonoid production by systematically tuning the central metabolic pathways based on a CRISPR interference system in Escherichia coli

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wu, Junjun ^a,b   Du, Guocheng ^a,b   Chen, Jian ^a,b   Zhou, Jingwen ^a,b  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FLAVANONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; MALONYL COENZYME A; NARINGENIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; STEREOISOMERISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAVANONES; FLAVONOIDS; MALONYL COENZYME A; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLASMIDS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84940840437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13477     Document Type: Article

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