Transporter and its engineering for secondary metabolites

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 100, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 6119-6130

  Lv, Huajun ^a   Li, Jianhua ^a   Wu, Yingying ^a   Garyali, Sanjog ^a   Wang, Yong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Engineering; Heterologous expression; Secondary metabolites; Synthetic biology; Transporter

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NATURAL PRODUCTS; RECENT PROGRESS; SECONDARY METABOLITES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSMEMBRANES; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TRANSPORTER;

METABOLITES;

ABC TRANSPORTER; ALKALOID; NATURAL PRODUCT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYKETIDE; TERPENOID; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; CARRIER PROTEIN; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANT; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

ASPERGILLUS; FUSARIUM; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NICOTIANA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES RIMOSUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; VASCULAR PLANT; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ASPERGILLUS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHYTOCHEMICALS; PLANTS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84969749533     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-7605-6     Document Type: Review

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