Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the synthesis of the quadripolymer poly(glycolate-co-lactate-co-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) from glucose

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue , 2017, Pages 38-44

  Li, Zheng Jun ^a   Qiao, Kangjian ^b   Che, Xue Mei ^c   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3 hydroxybutyrate; 4 hydroxybutyrate; Biopolymer; Escherichia coli; Glycolate; Lactate

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; TOUGHNESS;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; 4-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; GLYCOLATES; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE; POLY-3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYL COENZYME A ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BIOPOLYMER; COENZYME A TRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLIC ACID; HYDROXYPYRUVATE REDUCTASE; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOCITRATE LYASE; LACTIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLYGLACTIN; PROPIONYL COENZYME A; SUCCINATE SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; SULFITE REDUCTASE (NADPH); TRANSFERASE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREACTOR; CARBON SOURCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA PURIFICATION; DRY WEIGHT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES;

EID: 85029544137     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2017.09.003     Document Type: Article

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