The Metabolic Pathway Engineering Handbook: Tools and Applications, Volume 1

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Christina Smolke
CRC Press, Jul 28, 2009 - Medical - 582 pages
This second volume of the Metabolic Pathway Engineering Handbook delves into evolutionary tools and gene expression tools for metabolic pathway engineering. It covers applications of emerging technologies including recent research genome-wide technologies, DNA and phenotypic microarrays, and proteomics tools for experimentally determining flux thro
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Evolutionary Engineering of Industrially Important Microbial Phenotypes
1-1
Chapter 2 Improving Protein Functions by Directed Evolution
2-1
Chapter 3 Engineering DNA and RNA Regulatory Regions through Random Mutagenesis and Screening
3-1
Chapter 4 Evolving Pathways and Genomes for the Production of Natural and Novel Compounds
4-1
Chapter 5 Models Predicting Optimized Strategies for Protein Evolution
5-1
Gene Expression Tools for Metabolic Pathway Engineering
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Chapter 6 LowCopy Number Plasmids as Artificial Chromosomes
6-1
Chapter 7 Chromosomal Engineering Strategies
7-1
Future Prospects in Metaboli Engineering
14-13
Chapter 15 Systems Biology GenomeScale Models and Metabolic Engineering
15-1
Chapter 16 CellFree Systems for Metabolic Engineering
16-1
Chapter 17 In Silico Models for Metabolic Systems Engineering
17-1
Tools for Experimentally Determining Flux through Pathways
17-25
Chapter 18 GCMS for Metabolic Flux Analysis
18-1
Chapter 19 Tools for Measuring Intermediate and Product Formation
19-1
Chapter 20 Use of AEXHPLCESIMS for 13CLabeling Based Metabolic Flux Analysis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Penicillium chrysogenum
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Chapter 8 Regulating Gene Expression through Engineered RNA Technologies
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Chapter 9 Tools Designed to Regulate Translational Efficiency
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Chapter 10 Metabolic Engineering of the Secretory Processing Pathway in Eukaryotes
10-1
Chapter 11 Engineering Multifunctional Enzyme Systems for Optimized Metabolite Transfer between Sequential Conversion Steps
11-1
Chapter 12 Practical Pathway EngineeringDemonstration in Integrated Tools
12-1
Application of Emerging Technologies to Metabolic Engineering
12-15
DNA Microarrays Phenotypic Microarrays and Proteomics
13-1
Chapter 14 Monitoring and Measuring the Metabolome
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Future Applicationf of Meabolic Engineering
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Chapter 21 Energy and Cofactor Issues in Fermentation and Oxyfunctionalization Processes
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An Emerging Technology
22-1
Chapter 23 Applications of Metabolic Engineering for Natural Drug Discovery
23-1
Chapter 24 Metabolic Engineering for Alternative Fuels
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Back cover
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