Continuous bioconversion of n-octane to
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Oliver Favre-Bulle; Erik Weenink; Tera Vos; Hans Preusting; Bernard Witholt
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Article
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1993
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract __Escherichia coli__ is able to grow on sugars in the presence of a bulk __n__βalkane phase. When __E. coli__ is equipped with the __alk__ genes from __Pseudomonas oleovorans__, the resulting recombinant strain converts __n__βalkanes into the corresponding alkanoic acids. To study the e