Isolation and enzyme determination of Candida tropicalis mutants for DCA production

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 245-249

  Jiao, Peng ^a   Ma, Shuaiwu ^a   Hua, Yutao ^a   Huang, Yingming ^a   Cao, Zhu'an ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Candida tropicalis; Carnitine octanoyltransferase; Cytochrome P450; Long chain dicarboxylic acid; Two step enrichment and double time replica plating technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002857575     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.46.245     Document Type: Article

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