Engineering microbial cell factories for the production of plant natural products: From design principles to industrial-scale production

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Liu, Xiaonan ^a,b   Ding, Wentao ^a   Jiang, Huifeng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Industrial production; Metabolic engineering; Microbial cell factories; Plant natural products; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; CAROTENOID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NATURAL PRODUCT; RESVERATROL; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; COST; DATA MINING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; FERMENTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROBIAL CELL FACTORY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; BACTERIUM; CELL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELL ENGINEERING; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FERMENTATION; FUNGI; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85025099157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-017-0732-7     Document Type: Review

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