Membrane engineering via trans unsaturated fatty acids production improves Escherichia coli robustness and production of biorenewables

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue , 2016, Pages 105-113

  Tan, Zaigao ^a   Yoon, Jong Moon ^a   Nielsen, David R ^b   Shanks, Jacqueline V ^a   Jarboe, Laura R ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboxylic acids production; Membrane fluidity; Membrane integrity; Tolerance; Trans unsaturated fatty acids (TUFA)

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FITS AND TOLERANCES; FLUIDITY; LOW TEMPERATURE PRODUCTION; MEMBRANES; SATURATED FATTY ACIDS; STYRENE; TOXICITY; UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE INTEGRITY; MEMBRANE POLARIZATION; MICROBIAL BIOCATALYSTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; TRANS UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS (TUFA);

FATTY ACIDS;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; CIS FATTY ACID; CIS TRANS ISOMERASE; DECANOIC ACID; OCTANOIC ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANS FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOENGINEERING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GLUCOSE INTAKE; GROWTH RATE; ISOMERIZATION; MEMBRANE BIOENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84959318102     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.02.004     Document Type: Article

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