Engineering a synthetic pathway for maleate in Escherichia coli

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Noda, Shuhei ^a   Shirai, Tomokazu ^a   Mori, Yutaro ^a   Oyama, Sachiko ^a   Kondo, Akihiko ^a,b  

^a RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CHORISMIC ACID; GENTISIC ACID; MALEIC ACID; POLYKETIDE; 2,5-DIHYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; ACETYL COENZYME A; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; MALEIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHENYLALANINE;

BENZENE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBOXYLIC ACID; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DRUG; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMER; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOPROCESS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; QUANTUM YIELD; CATALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACETYL COENZYME A; CATALYSIS; CHORISMIC ACID; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERMENTATION; GENTISATES; GLUCOSE; MALEATES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHENYLALANINE; POLYKETIDES;

EID: 85032463907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01233-9     Document Type: Article

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