Engineering xylose metabolism for production of polyhydroxybutyrate in the non-model bacterium Burkholderia sacchari

Abstract Background Despite its ability to grow and produce high-value molecules using renewable carbon sources, two main factors must be improved to use Burkholderia sacchari as a chassis for bioproduction at an industrial scale: first, the lack of molecular tools to engineer this organism and seco...

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Main Authors: Linda P. Guamán, Carlos Barba-Ostria, Fuzhong Zhang, Edmar R. Oliveira-Filho, José Gregório C. Gomez, Luiziana F. Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12934-018-0924-9