An engineered Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle for carbon dioxide fixation in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue , 2018, Pages 423-433

  Schada von Borzyskowski, Lennart ^a,b   Carrillo, Martina ^a   Leupold, Simeon ^d   Glatter, Timo ^a   Kiefer, Patrick ^b   Weishaupt, Ramon ^b,e   Heinemann, Matthias ^d   Erb, Tobias J ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autotrophy; Calvin Benson Bassham cycle; Carbon fixation; Methylobacterium extorquens AM1; Methylotrophy; RuBisCO

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

AUTOTROPHY; CALVIN-BENSON-BASSHAM CYCLE; CARBON FIXATION; EXTORQUENS AM1; METHYLOTROPHY; RUBISCO;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

CARBON 13; CARBON DIOXIDE; PROTEOME;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BIOMASS; CARBON FIXATION; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOLYSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; HOST CELL; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 85046776402     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2018.04.003     Document Type: Article

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