Browsing Chemical Engineering by Author "Akawi, Lamees Katherine"
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High-Level Microbial Production of Propionate in Engineered Escherichia coli
Akawi, Lamees Katherine (University of Waterloo, 2015-01-07)Biological platforms for propionate production have been limited to anaerobic native microbial producers, such as Propionibacterium and Clostridium. In this work, we demonstrated high-level heterologous production of ... -
Manipulating the sleeping beauty mutase operon for the production of 1-propanol in engineered Escherichia coli
Srirangan, Kajan; Akawi, Lamees; Liu, Xuejia; Westbrook, Adam; Blondeel, Eric J. M.; Aucoin, Marc; Moo-Young, Murray; Chou, C. Perry (BioMed Central, 2013-09-28)Background: While most resources in biofuels were directed towards implementing bioethanol programs, 1-propanol has recently received attention as a promising alternative biofuel. Nevertheless, no microorganism has been ...