Microbial production of natural and non-natural flavonoids: Pathway engineering, directed evolution and systems/synthetic biology

Biotechnology Advances

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 634-662

  Pandey, Ramesh Prasad ^a   Parajuli, Prakash ^a   Koffas, Mattheos A G ^b,c   Sohng, Jae Kyung ^a  

^a SunMoon University   (South Korea)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotransformation; Flavonoids; Metabolic engineering; Microbial production; Pathway engineering; Post modifications; Systems synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; CELL ENGINEERING; FLAVONOIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DIRECTED EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; NON-NATURAL FLAVONOIDS; PATHWAY ENGINEERINGS; POST-MODIFICATION; RECOMBINANT STRAINS;

BIOLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENZYME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUEL CELL; PIGMENT; REACTION KINETICS;

FLAVONOID;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; HUMAN; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84961125909     PISSN: 07349750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2016.02.012     Document Type: Review

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