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Meijie Li1, Changqing Liu2, Jianming Yang3

  • 1Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 135 Songling Road, Qingdao 266101, China; Energy-Rich Compound Production by Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation Research Center, College of Life Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, No. 700 Changchen Road, Qingdao 266109, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

Biotechnology Advances
|April 15, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
Aromatic compoundsCytotoxicityFeedback inhibitionMetabolic engineeringPTSShikimate pathway

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