Reconstituting Plant Secondary Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Production of High-Value Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 575, Issue , 2016, Pages 195-224

  Pyne, M E ^a   Narcross, L ^a   Fossati, E ^a   Bourgeois, L ^a   Burton, E ^a   Gold, N D ^a   Martin, V J J ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids; Metabolic engineering; Opiates; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Secondary metabolism; Synthetic biology; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; BENZYLISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES; SECONDARY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT GENE; PROCEDURES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BENZYLISOQUINOLINES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENES, PLANT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84959871856     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.02.011     Document Type: Chapter

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