Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the production of isoprenoids

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 365, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Ward, Valerie C A ^a,b   Chatzivasileiou, Alkiviadis O ^a   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Genetic engineering; Isoprenoids; Metabolic engineering; Methylerythritol pathway; Mevalonate pathway

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; ISOPRENOID; MEVALONIC ACID; TERPENE;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CELL METABOLISM; ENERGY RESOURCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; TERPENES;

EID: 85050632805     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny079     Document Type: Short Survey

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