Controlling Central Carbon Metabolism for Improved Pathway Yields in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 116-124

  Tan, Sue Zanne ^a,b   Manchester, Shawn ^a,c   Prather, Kristala L J ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Zymergen   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic control; hexokinase; metabolic engineering; tetracycline transactivator protein (tTA); transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOKINASE 1; GLUCONIC ACID; GLUCOSE; HEXOKINASE; HEXOKINASE 2; ISOBUTANOL; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HXK2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; ENZYME REPRESSION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLYCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CARBON; HEXOKINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84958967864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00164     Document Type: Article

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