Use of bacterial co-cultures for the efficient production of chemicals

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2018, Pages 33-38

  Jones, J Andrew ^a   Wang, Xin ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY;

CO-CULTURES; DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER APPROACH; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; MONITOR AND CONTROL; TRUE POTENTIALS; WIDE SPREADS;

SUBSTRATES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COCULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

CHEMICALS; ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 85035774309     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.11.012     Document Type: Review

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