Production of amino acids – Genetic and metabolic engineering approaches

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 245, Issue , 2017, Pages 1575-1587

  Lee, Jin Ho ^a   Wendisch, Volker F ^b  

^a Kyungsung University   (South Korea)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Functional tools; Regulon; Systems metabolic engineering; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SCAFFOLDS;

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; L-LYSINE PRODUCTION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING APPROACH; REGULON; STARCH HYDROLYSATE; SYSTEMS METABOLIC ENGINEERINGS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; METABOLISM; RNA;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION (CHEMISTRY); REGULON; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACIDS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 85019608122     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.05.065     Document Type: Review

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