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Reference

Hal Alper, et al. Construction of lycopene-overproducing E. coli strains by combining systematic and combinatorial gene knockout targets. Nature Biotechnology 23 (2005).

Nishizaki T, Tsuge K, Itaya M, Doi N, Yanagawa H. Metabolic engineering of carotenoid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli by ordered gene assembly in Bacillus subtilis. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2007 Feb;73(4):1355-61. PMCID: PMC1828653.

Luke Z. Yuan, Pierre E. Rouvière, Robert A. LaRossa and Wonchul Suh. Chromosomal promoter replacement of the isoprenoid pathway for enhancing carotenoid production in E. coli. Metabolic Engineering 8 (2006) 79-90.

Luan Tao, Raymond E. Jackson, Pierre E. Rouvière, Qiong Cheng. Isolation of chromosomal mutations that affect carotenoid production in Escherichia coli: mutations alter copy number of ColE1-type plasmids. FEMS Microbiology Letters 243 (2005) 227-233.

von Lintig J, Vogt K. Filling the gap in vitamin A research. Molecular identification of an enzyme cleaving beta-carotene to retinal. J Biol Chem. 2000 Apr 21;275(16):11915-20. PMID: 10766819.