Engineered Assimilation of Exogenous and Endogenous Formate in Escherichia coli

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1722-1731

  Yishai, Oren ^a   Goldbach, Leander ^a   Tenenboim, Hezi ^a   Lindner, Steffen N ^a   Bar Even, Arren ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

auxotrophic strains; formate metabolism; formate THF ligase; one carbon metabolism; pyruvate formate lyase; reductive glycine pathway; serine threonine cycle; threonine cleavage

Indexed keywords

FORMIC ACID; GLYCINE; PYRUVIC ACID; SERINE; THREONINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; UPREGULATION;

CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FORMATES; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 85029528338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00086     Document Type: Article

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