Electrode-assisted acetoin production in a metabolically engineered Escherichia coli strain

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Förster, Andreas H ^a   Beblawy, Sebastian ^a   Golitsch, Frederik ^a   Gescher, Johannes ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetoin; Bulk chemicals; Electrode assisted fermentation; Escherichia coli; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENES; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; NITRATES; PHYSIOLOGY; STRAIN;

ACETOIN; ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BULK CHEMICALS; ENGINEERED ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; SIMULTANEOUS FORMATION;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOENGINEERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ELECTRODE; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS;

EID: 85015637540     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0745-9     Document Type: Article

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