Engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum for fast production of l-lysine and l-pipecolic acid

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 100, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 8075-8090

  Pérez García, Fernando ^a   Peters Wendisch, Petra ^a   Wendisch, Volker F ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium glutamicum; l lysine; l pipecolic acid; Lysine dehydrogenase; Permease; SugR

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIOLOGY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; GLUCOSE; PEPTIDES; POLYOLS; PRODUCTIVITY; SUGARS;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; L-LYSINE; LYSINE DEHYDROGENASE; PERMEASE; PIPECOLIC ACID; SUGR;

AMINO ACIDS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLOMALTODEXTRINASE; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE PERMEASE; LDHA PROTEIN; LYSINE; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); PIPECOLIC ACID; PIPERIDINE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYPHOSPHATE; PYRROLINE 5 CARBOXYLATE REDUCTASE; REPRESSOR OF THE VANILLATE UTILIZATION OPERON; RIBULOSE 5 PHOSPHATE 3 EPIMERASE; SUGR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PIPECOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOENGINEERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; GROWTH RATE; PLASMID;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOMASS; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; GLYCOLYSIS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; RHODOBACTERALES; SILICIBACTER POMEROYI; START CODON; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSLATION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RHODOBACTERACEAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; POSIBACTERIA; SILICIBACTER POMEROYI; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LYSINE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PIPECOLIC ACIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHODOBACTERACEAE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 84976260230     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-7682-6     Document Type: Article

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