Development and implementation of rapid metabolic engineering tools for chemical and fuel production in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius NCIMB 11955

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Sheng, Lili ^a   Kovács, Katalin ^a   Winzer, Klaus ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Minton, Nigel Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allelic exchange; Counter selection marker; Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius; In frame deletion; pyrE; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ACID RESISTANCE; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DNA SEQUENCES; ETHANOL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

FRAME DELETIONS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOGLUCOSIDASIUS; PYRE; SELECTION MARKER; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

GENES;

ALLELE; DNA; ETHANOL; GENE; GENOME; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID;

CLOSTRIDIA; GEOBACILLUS KAUSTOPHILUS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOGLUCOSIDASIUS;

EID: 85009944752     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0692-x     Document Type: Article

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