Engineering Escherichia coli for xylitol
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Patrick C. Cirino; Jonathan W. Chin; Lonnie O. Ingram
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The range of value-added chemicals produced by Escherichia coli from simple sugars has been expanded to include xylitol. This was accomplished by screening the in vivo activity of a number of heterologous xylitol-producing enzymes. Xylose reductases from Candida boidinii (CbXR), Candida tenuis (CtXR