Modular pathway rewiring of Saccharomyces cerevisiae enables high-level production of L-ornithine

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Qin, Jiufu ^a,b   Zhou, Yongjin J ^b   Krivoruchko, Anastasia ^b   Huang, Mingtao ^b   Liu, Lifang ^b   Khoomrung, Sakda ^b   Siewers, Verena ^b   Jiang, Bo ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^b,c  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Technical University of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUCOSE; ORNITHINE; UREA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOFUEL; CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COST ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; METABOLITE; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FED BATCH FERMENTATION; MODULAR PATHWAY REWIRING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UREA CYCLE; YEAST; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; ORNITHINE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84941129321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9224     Document Type: Article

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