Evolutionary engineering of Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius for improved ethanol production

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2156-2167

  Zhou, Jiewen ^a   Wu, Kang ^b   Rao, Christopher V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

ethanol; evolutionary engineering; Geobacillus; metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; STRAIN;

EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; FACULTATIVE ANAEROBES; GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOGLUCOSIDASIUS; MICROAEROBIC CONDITIONS; MIXED ACID FERMENTATION; PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ACETIC ACID; ADENINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; CELLOBIOSE; GLUCOSE; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOENGINEERING; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOGLUCOSIDASIUS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS;

EID: 84983745362     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25983     Document Type: Article

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