Modular Metabolic Engineering for Biobased Chemical Production

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 152-166

  Lu, Hongyuan ^a   Villada, Juan C ^a   Lee, Patrick K H ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

biobased chemicals; coculture; genome scale metabolic model; modular engineering

Indexed keywords

GENES; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; METABOLISM; SELF ASSEMBLY; STRAIN;

BIOBASED CHEMICALS; COCULTURE; GENOME SCALE METABOLIC MODEL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING APPROACH; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; RECOMBINANT STRAINS; STRAIN OPTIMIZATION; SUB-OPTIMAL PRODUCTION;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COCULTURE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GENOME; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 85050517943     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: 18793096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.07.003     Document Type: Review

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