Extranuclear expression of the bacterial xylose isomerase (xylA) and the UDP-glucose dehydrogenase (hasB) genes in yeast with Kluyveromyces lactis linear killer plasmids as vectors

Current Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 323-330

  Schründer, Jürgen ^a   Gunge, Norio ^b   Meinhardt, Friedhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SOJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; XYLOSE ISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; YEAST;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; KLUYVEROMYCES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOMYCES RUBIGINOSUS;

EID: 0029862486     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900122     Document Type: Article

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