Engineering an Obligate photoautotrophic cyanobacterium to utilize glycerol for growth and chemical production

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 69-75

  Kanno, Masahiro ^a,b   Atsumi, Shota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ASAHI KASEI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

23 butanediol; Cyanobacteria; Glycerol Metabolism; Metabolic Engineering; Obligate Photoautotroph

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIOL; CHLOROPHYLL A; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL KINASE; KANAMYCIN; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SPECTINOMYCIN; BIOFUEL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBON SOURCE; CELL GROWTH; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; LIGHT INTENSITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROCEDURES; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOFUELS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCEROL; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85012845307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00239     Document Type: Article

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