Pathway construction and metabolic engineering for fermentative production of ectoine in Escherichia coli

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 10-18

  Ning, Yike ^a   Wu, Xuejiao ^a   Zhang, Chenglin ^a   Xu, Qingyang ^a   Chen, Ning ^a   Xie, Xixian ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aspartokinase; Ectoine; Escherichia coli; Glyoxylate shunt; Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CARBON; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENES; GLUCOSE;

ASPARTOKINASE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ECTOINE; FED-BATCH FERMENTATION; FERMENTATIVE PRODUCTION; GLYOXYLATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSORS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ASPARTATE KINASE; ASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTOKINASE HOMOSERINE DEHYDROGENASE; ECTOINE; GLUCOSE; HOMOSERINE; LYSINE; OXALOACETIC ACID; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; THREONINE; DIAMINO ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ECTABC GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FED BATCH FERMENTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC BACKGROUND; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HALOMONAS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; ICLR GENE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; THRA GENE; TRC GENE; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GLUCOSE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84960907446     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.02.013     Document Type: Article

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