Sensitive cells: Enabling tools for static and dynamic control of microbial metabolic pathways

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 205-214

  Cress, Brady F ^a   Trantas, Emmanouil A ^b   Ververidis, Filippos ^b   Linhardt, Robert J ^a,c,d   Koffas, Mattheos A G ^a,c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; MACHINERY; METABOLISM;

COMMODITY CHEMICALS; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; ENGINEERING STATICS; EXPRESSION LEVELS; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; PATHWAY ENGINEERINGS; STATE OF THE ART;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSENSOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; BACTERIUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84945944020     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2015.09.007     Document Type: Review

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