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Evolution combined with genomic study elucidates genetic bases of isobutanol tolerance in Escherichia coli.
Microbial cell factories - 25 Mar 2011
Minty Jeremy J, Lesnefsky Ann A, Lin Fengming, Chen Yu, Zaroff Ted A, Veloso Artur B, Xie Bin, McConnell Catie A, Ward Rebecca J, Schwartz Donald R, Rouillard Jean-Marie, Gao Yuan, Gulari Erdogan, Lin Xiaoxia Nina
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BACKGROUND: Isobutanol is a promising next-generation biofuel with demonstrated high yield microbial production, but the toxicity of this molecule reduces fermentation volumetric productivity and final titer. Organic solvent tolerance is a complex, multigenic phenotype that has been recalcitrant to rational engineering approaches. We apply experimental evolution followed by genome resequencing and a gene...
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