Metabolic Engineering

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nielsen, Jens (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, 73
• Subjects: Biotechnology.; Biochemistry.; Chemical engineering.; Biochemistry, general.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.
• Physical Description: XII, 184 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540453000
• ISSN: 0724-6145 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45300-8

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.