Engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum Mutants for 3-Methyl-1-butanol Production

Yu Zhang1,2,3, Xiaohuan Zhang1,2,3,4, Shiyuan Xiao1,2,3,4

  • 1Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.

Biochemical Genetics
|January 16, 2019
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