Genetic manipulation of a metabolic enzyme and a transcriptional regulator increasing succinate excretion from unicellular cyanobacterium

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Osanai, Takashi ^a,b   Shirai, Tomokazu ^c   Iijima, Hiroko ^a,b   Nakaya, Yuka ^a,c   Okamoto, Mami ^c   Kondo, Akihiko ^c,d   Hirai, Masami Y ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Metabolism; Metabolomics; Sigma factor; Succinate

Indexed keywords

ACETATE KINASE; ACETIC ACID; CITRATE SYNTHASE; DEXTRO LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; FUMARATE HYDRATASE; GLYCOGEN; LACTIC ACID; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRUVATE KINASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUCCINIC ACID;

ACKA GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGE GENE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 84946847227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01064     Document Type: Article

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