Transcription interference and ORF nature strongly affect promoter strength in a reconstituted metabolic pathway

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Carquet, Marie ^a,b,c   Pompon, Denis ^a,b,c   Truan, Gilles ^a,b,c  

^a INSA   (France)

^b UMR792 INGÉNIERIE DES SYSTÈMES BIOLOGIQUES ET DES PROCÉDÉS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Combinatorial metabolic libraries; Expression tuning; Metabolic engineering; Plasmid encoded metabolic pathway; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009861560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22964185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00021     Document Type: Article

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