Construction of Escherichia coli cell factories for crocin biosynthesis

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Wang, Wen ^a,b   He, Ping ^a,b   Zhao, Dongdong ^a   Ye, Lijun ^a   Dai, Longhai ^a   Zhang, Xueli ^a   Sun, Yuanxia ^a   Zheng, Jing ^b   Bi, Changhao ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Crocetin; Crocin; Escherichia coli; Glycosyltransferase; Saffron stigma

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CROCIN; DIOXYGENASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ZEAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; CROCETIN; PLANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUS; CROCUS ANCYRENSIS; CROCUS SATIVUS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GARDENIA JASMINOIDES; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GARDENIA; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; PROCEDURES;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; CROCUS; DIOXYGENASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GARDENIA; GENES, PLANT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 85069268968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-019-1166-1     Document Type: Article

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