Towards developing algal synthetic biology

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 716-722

  Scaife, Mark Aden ^a   Smith, Alison Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Industrial biotechnology; Meta data; Metabolic engineering; Rational design; Synthetic biology; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; ANTIOXIDANT; BIOFUEL; FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CODON; DNA MODIFICATION; DUNALIELLA SALINA; GENE CONTROL; GENE EDITING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MICROALGA; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSGENE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIATOM; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOFUELS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DIATOMS; EUKARYOTA; FATTY ACIDS; GENOME; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROALGAE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSGENES;

EID: 85009745517     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20160061     Document Type: Article

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