Production of the marine carotenoid astaxanthin by metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum

Marine Drugs

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Henke, Nadja A ^a   Heider, Sabine A E ^a,b   Peters Wendisch, Petra ^a   Wendisch, Volker F ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GSK   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astaxanthin production; Carotenoids; Genome reduced Corynebacterium glutamicum; Metabolic engineering; Systematic approach

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA CAROTENE KETOLASE; HYDROXYLASE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA CAROTENE; BETA-CAROTENE KETOLASE; CAROTENOID; DECAPRENOXANTHIN; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; OXYGENASE; XANTHOPHYLL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CELL DENSITY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CRTW GENE; CRTY GENE; CRTZ GENE; DRY WEIGHT; FULVIMARINA PELAGI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MARINE BACTERIUM; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; RIBOSOME; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VITAMIN METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; OXYGENASES; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 84979256573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md14070124     Document Type: Article

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