Engineering a novel biosynthetic pathway in Escherichia coli for production of renewable ethylene glycol

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 376-383

  Pereira, Brian ^a   Zhang, Haoran ^a   De Mey, Marjan ^a,b   Lim, Chin Giaw ^a,d   Li, Zheng Jun ^a,c   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Manus Biosynthesis   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethylene glycol; Metabolic engineering; Renewable; Serine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHYLENE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; POLYOLS;

BIOSYNTHESIS PATHWAYS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY; COMMODITY CHEMICALS; ENGINEERED ESCHERICHIA COLI; NATURAL GAS FEEDSTOCKS; NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RENEWABLE; SERINE;

ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ETHANOLAMINE; ETHANOLAMINE OXIDASE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLUCOSE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SERINE;

EID: 84965129137     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25717     Document Type: Article

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