Corynebacterium glutamicum Metabolic Engineering with CRISPR Interference (CRISPRi)

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 375-385

  Cleto, Sara ^a,b   Jensen, Jaide V K ^a,b,c   Wendisch, Volker F ^c   Lu, Timothy K ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

amino acid; C. glutamicum; CRISPRi; metabolic engineering; sgRNA dCas9

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUIDE RNA; LYSINE; PROTEIN CAS9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PCK GENE; PGI GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYK GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; RNA;

EID: 84973136613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00216     Document Type: Article

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