Coupling gene regulatory patterns to bioprocess conditions to optimize synthetic metabolic modules for improved sesquiterpene production in yeast

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Peng, Bingyin ^a   Plan, Manuel R ^a   Carpenter, Alexander ^a   Nielsen, Lars K ^a   Vickers, Claudia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fed batch cultivation; Metabolic engineering; Mevalonate pathway; Microbial cell factories; Overflow metabolism; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sesquiterpene; Synthetic biology; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CELL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION; YEAST;

FED-BATCH CULTIVATION; MEVALONATE PATHWAY; MICROBIAL CELL FACTORIES; OVERFLOW METABOLISM; SESQUITERPENES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATIONS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 85014725396     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0728-x     Document Type: Article

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