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Xiaoling Tang1, Jaslyn Lee1, Wei Ning Chen1

  • 1School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637459, Singapore.

Metabolic Engineering Communications
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Keywords:
Fatty acid biosynthesisFatty acid derivativesMetabolic engineeringSaccharomyces cerevisiae

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