Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production of fatty acid short- and branched-chain alkyl esters biodiesel

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Teo, Wei Suong ^a,b   Ling, Hua ^a,b   Yu, Ai Qun ^a,b   Chang, Matthew Wook ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Biofuel; Fatty acid branched chain alkyl esters; Fatty acid short chain alkyl esters; Metabolic engineering; Synthetic biology; Yeast

Indexed keywords

BIODIESEL; BIOFUELS; CARBON; CELL ENGINEERING; CHAINS; CLONING; ENZYMES; ESTERS; GENES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCALABILITY; SYNTHETIC FUELS; TEMPERATURE; YEAST;

ALKYL ESTERS; BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; BRANCHED-CHAIN ALKYL ESTERS; CARBON-CHAIN LENGTH; HIGH CELL DENSITY FERMENTATIONS; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; NEGATIVE REGULATORS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

FATTY ACIDS;

BIOFUEL; DIESEL; ESTER; FATTY ACID; FERMENTATION; YEAST;

MARINOBACTER SP.; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84946202142     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0361-5     Document Type: Article

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