Innovating a nonconventional yeast platform for producing shikimate as the building block of high-value aromatics

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 29-38

  Gao, Meirong ^a,b   Cao, Mingfeng ^a,b   Suástegui, Miguel ^a,b   Walker, James ^a   Quiroz, Natalia Rodriguez ^b   Wu, Yutong ^a   Tribby, Dana ^b   Okerlund, Adam ^b   Stanley, Levi ^a   Shanks, Jacqueline V ^a,b   Shao, Zengyi ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbial Factories; Nonconventional Yeast; Promoter And Terminator Characterization; Schef Fersomyces Stipitis; Shikimate Derivatives; Shikimate Pathway

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; NATURAL PRODUCT; NUTRACEUTICAL; SHIKIMIC ACID; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHEFFERSOMYCES STIPITIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUDDING YEAST; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SHIKIMIC ACID; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; XYLOSE;

EID: 85012819456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00132     Document Type: Article

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