Ethyl acetate production by the elusive alcohol acetyltransferase from yeast

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue , 2017, Pages 92-101

  Kruis, Aleksander J ^a   Levisson, Mark ^a   Mars, Astrid E ^a   van der Ploeg, Max ^a   Garcés Daza, Fernando ^a   Ellena, Valeria ^a   Kengen, Servé W M ^a   van der Oost, John ^a   Weusthuis, Ruud A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol acetyltransferase; Escherichia coli; Ethyl acetate; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; yeast; hydrolase

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLASES;

ACETYL TRANSFERASE; ACETYLTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ETHYL ACETATE SYNTHESIS; ETHYL ACETATES; NOVEL ENZYMES; PRODUCTION STRAIN; WICKERHAMOMYCES ANOMALUS;

YEAST;

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACETYL COENZYME A; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BATCH FERMENTATION; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTED PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNTHESIS; WICKERHAMOMYCES ANOMALUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ACETATES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 85017568457     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2017.03.004     Document Type: Article

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