Production of jet fuel precursor monoterpenoids from engineered Escherichia coli

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1703-1712

  Mendez Perez, Daniel ^a,b   Alonso Gutierrez, Jorge ^a,b   Hu, Qijun ^a,b   Molinas, Margaux ^a,b   Baidoo, Edward E K ^a,b   Wang, George ^a,b   Chan, Leanne J G ^a,b   Adams, Paul D ^a,b   Petzold, Christopher J ^a,b   Keasling, Jay D ^a,b,c,d,e   Lee, Taek S ^a,b  

^a JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

1,8 cineole; jet fuel; linalool; metabolic engineering; mevalonate pathway; monoterpenes

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BATCH CELL CULTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL OILS; FUELS; JET FUEL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

1 ,8-CINEOLE; CHROMOSOMAL MUTATION; COMMODITY CHEMICALS; ENGINEERED ESCHERICHIA COLI; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; HIGH ENERGY DENSITY FUELS; LINALOOL; MEVALONATE PATHWAY;

MONOTERPENES;

CINEOLE; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; FUEL; GLUCOSE; LINALOOL; MEVALONIC ACID; PYROPHOSPHATE; TERPENE; DITERPENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GERANYL DIPHOSPHATE; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROCARBON; ISOPRENOID PHOSPHATE; ISPA PROTEIN, E COLI; JP5 JET FUEL; PYROPHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SESQUITERPENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS FLOW; GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GENE TECHNOLOGY; ION MONITORING; ISOMER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMID; PRECURSOR; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEOMICS; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYNTHESIS;

DIPHOSPHATES; DITERPENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GERANYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; HYDROCARBONS; MONOTERPENES; MUTATION; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 85021239673     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.26296     Document Type: Article

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