Enabling the valorization of guaiacol-based lignin: Integrated chemical and biochemical production of cis,cis-muconic acid using metabolically engineered Amycolatopsis sp ATCC 39116

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue , 2018, Pages 200-210

  Barton, Nadja ^a   Horbal, Liliya ^a   Starck, Sören ^a   Kohlstedt, Michael ^a   Luzhetskyy, Andriy ^a   Wittmann, Christoph ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adipic acid; Amycolatopsis; Aromatics; Blue white screening; Catechol; Catechol dioxygenase; Guaiacol; gusA; Hardwood; Hydrothermal conversion; Lignin; Lignin depolymerization; Muconate cycloisomerase; O cresol; Phenol; Softwood; Terephthalic acid

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; AROMATIZATION; BACTERIA; GENES; HARDWOODS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHENOLS; SOFTWOODS;

ADIPIC ACIDS; AMYCOLATOPSIS; AROMATICS; CATECHOL; CATECHOL DIOXYGENASES; GUAIACOL; GUSA; HYDROTHERMAL CONVERSION; LIGNIN DEPOLYMERIZATION; MUCONATE CYCLOISOMERASE; O-CRESOL; TEREPHTHALIC ACIDS;

LIGNIN;

BENZOIC ACID; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CATECHOL; COUMARIC ACID; GUAIACOL; LIGNIN; MUCONIC ACID; ORTHO CRESOL; PHENOL; TOLUENE; SORBIC ACID;

AMYCOLATOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ADIPIC ACID; DEPOLYMERIZATION; HARDWOODS; LIGNINS; SOFTWOODS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; GUAIACOL; LIGNIN; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SORBIC ACID;

EID: 85039713366     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2017.12.001     Document Type: Article

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