Systems metabolic engineering strategies for the production of amino acids

Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 87-96

  Ma, Qian ^a   Zhang, Quanwei ^a   Xu, Qingyang ^a   Zhang, Chenglin ^a   Li, Yanjun ^a   Fan, Xiaoguang ^a   Xie, Xixian ^a   Chen, Ning ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Escherichia coli; Systems metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; PHENYLALANINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AROF GENE; AROG GENE; AROH GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; META GENE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MTR GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PTSG GENE; REVIEW; TAC GENE; TDH GENE; TNAB GENE;

EID: 85044678317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2405805X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synbio.2017.07.003     Document Type: Review

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