Metabolic Engineering - Advances in Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology 2001 edition

Marc Notes: Incl. bibl. ref. and index; Also avail. online. Table of Contents: After a Decade of Progress, an Expanded Role for Metabolic Engineering.- Metabolic Engineering for L-Lysine Production by Corynebacterium glutamicum.- Process Development and Metabolic Engineering for the Overproduction of Natural and Unnatural Polyketides.- Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Xylose Utilization.- Metabolic Engineering of Indene Bioconversion in Rhodococcus sp..- Metabolic Engineering of the Morphology of Aspergillus.- Evolutionary Engineering of Industrially Important Microbial Phenotypes. Publisher Marketing: Metabolic engineering is a rapidly evolving field that is being applied for the optimization of many different industrial processes. In this issue of Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, developments in different areas of metabolic engineering are reviewed. The contributions discuss the application of metabolic engineering in the improvement of yield and productivity - illustrated by amino acid production and the production of novel compounds - in the production of polyketides and extension of the substrate range - and in the engineering of S. cerevisiae for xylose metabolism, and the improvement of a complex biotransformation process.

Contributor Bio:  Nielsen, Jens SILAS G. VILLAS-BOAS, PHD, is a Research Scientist at AgResearch Limited in New Zealand. UTE ROESSNER, PHD, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.? MICHAEL A. E. HANSEN, PHD, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark. JORN SMEDSGAARD, PHD, is an Associate Professor at the Center for Microbial Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU?at the Technical University of Denmark. JENS NIELSEN, PROFESSOR, Dr. techn., PHD, is the Director of the Center for Microbial Biotechnology at the Technical University of Denmark.