Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering in plants and microbes. Part A, Metabolism in microbes /

• Other Authors: O'Connor, Sarah E. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, MA : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016.
• Series: Methods in enzymology ; v. 575.
• Subjects: Plants > Metabolism.; Plants > Microbiology.; Synthetic biology.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biochemistry.; Synthetic Biology > methods.; Metabolic Engineering > methods.; Plants > metabolism.; Electronic books.

Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering in Plants and Microbes: Part A, the new volume in the Methods in Enzymology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. This volume covers research methods, synthetic biology, and metabolic en...

Table of Contents:

• Directing biosynthesis: Practical supply of natural and unnatural cyanobactins / D. Sardar, M.D. Tianero, and E.W. Schmidt-- Synthetic biology approaches to new bisindoles/ L.M. Alkhalaf, Y.-L. Du, and K.S. Ryan-- Enzymatic [4+2] cycloadditions in the biosynthesis of Spirotetramates and spirotetronates/ B. Pang, G. Zhong, Z. Tang, and W. Liu-- Application and modification of flavin-dependent halogenases/ K.-H. van Pée, D. Milbredt, E.P. Patallo, V. Weichold, and M. Gajewi-- Engineering flavin-dependent halogenases/ J.T. Payne, M.C. Andorfer, and J.C. Lewis-- Heterologous expression of fungal secondary metabolite pathways in the Aspergillus nidulans host system/ J.W.A. van Dijk and C.C.C. Wang-- Plug-and-play benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthetic gene discovery in engineered yeast-- J.S. Morris, M. Dastmalcji, J. Li, L. Chang, X. Chen, J.M. Hagel, and P.J. Facchini-- Optimizing metabolic pathways for the improved production of natural products/ J.A. Jones and M.A.G. Koffas-- Reconstituting plant secondary metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisae for production of high-value benzylisoquinoline alkaloids/ M.E. Pyne, L. Narcross, E. Fossati, L. Bourgeois, E. Burton, N.D. Gold, and V.J.J. Martin-- Engineering microbes to synthesize plant isoprenoids/ K. Zhou, S. Edgar, and G. Stephanopoulos-- Natural product biosysnthesis in Escherichia coli: Menta monoterpenoids/ H.S. Toogood, S. Tait, A. Jervis, A. Ni Cheallaigh, L. Humphreys, E. Takano, J.M. Gardiner, and N.S. Scrutton-- High-efficiency genome editing of Streptomyces species by an engineered CRISPR/Cas system/ Y. Wang, R.E. Cobb, and H. Zhao-- Rapid optimization of engineered metabolic pathways with Serine Integrase Recombinational Assembly (SIRA)/ C.A. Merrick, C. Wardrope, J.E. Paget, S.D. Colloms, and S.J. Rosser-- Rewiring riboswitches to create new genetic circuits in bacteria/ C.J. Robinson, D. Medina-Stacey, M.-C. Wu, H.A. Vincent, and J. Micklefield.