, (Escherichia coli)

Yifan Feng1, Wenlong Xiao1, Xinyi Li1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P. R. China.

ACS synthetic biology
|February 11, 2025
PubMed
概括

这项研究利用大肠杆菌 (Escherichia coli) 来增强生殖素的生产,通过使用可再生资源 (如小麦) 来实现高标位,以实现具有成本效益的工业应用.

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