Biotechnology of Isoprenoids

ISBN-13: 9783319384672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 475 str.

Jens Schrader; Jorg Bohlmann

Opis

This book review series presents current trends in modern biotechnology. The series also discusses new discoveries and applications. Special volumes are dedicated to selected topics which focus on new biotechnological products and new processes for their synthesis and purification.

Spis treści

Terpene biosynthesis in prokaryotes.- Terpene biosynthesis in fungi.- Terpene biosynthesis in plants.- Terpene synthases: functions, evolution, and engineering.- (Plant) P450s for terpene functionalization.- Terpene hydroxylation / cyclization with engineered microbial enzymes.- Directed evolution of genes and enzymes for isoprenoid metabolic engineering.- Advances in the analysis of isoprenoid metabolites.- Metabolic engineering of bacterial and yeast microbial platform strains for isoprenoid production.- Metabolic engineering of algae, mosses, and higher plants for terpenoid production.- Bioprocess engineering for synthesis and conversion of isoprenoids.- Isoprene.- Menthol and related monoterpenes.- Monterpene indole alkaloids.- Farnesene and other isoprenoid biofuels.- Valencene and Nootkatone.- Santalenes and Santalols.- Sclareol and ambroxide related diterpenes.- Taxol.- Carotenoids.

Blurb

Albert Boronat

Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción

Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Prokaryotes

 

Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Biosynthesis of Terpenoid Natural Products in Fungi

 

Dorothea Tholl

Biosynthesis and Biological Functions of Terpenoids in Plants

 

Irini Pateraki

Allison Maree Heskes

Björn Hamberger

Cytochromes P450 for Terpene Functionalisation and Metabolic Engineering

 

Yun Chen

Yongjin J. Zhou

Verena Siewers

Jens Nielsen

Enabling Technologies to Advance Microbial Isoprenoid Production

 

Chase Kempinski

Zuodong Jiang

Stephen Bell

Joe Chappell

Metabolic Engineering of Higher Plants and Algae for Isoprenoid Production