Rewiring yarrowia lipolytica toward triacetic acid lactone for materials generation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 2096-2101

  Markham, Kelly A ^a   Palmer, Claire M ^b   Chwatko, Malgorzata ^a   Wagner, James M ^a   Murray, Clare ^a   Vazquez, Sofia ^a   Swaminathan, Arvind ^a   Chakravarty, Ishani ^a   Lynd, Nathaniel A ^a   Alper, Hal S ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biorenewable chemicals; O functionalization; Polyketide synthase; Triacetic acid lactone; Yarrowia lipolytica

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; POLY(EPICHLOROHYDRIN); POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PYRUVIC ACID; TRIACETIC ACID LACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PYRONE DERIVATIVE; PYRUVIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YARROWIA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PYRONES; PYRUVATES; YARROWIA;

EID: 85042693471     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1721203115     Document Type: Article

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