Physiological and morphological effects of genetic alterations leading to a reduced synthesis of UDP-glucose in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-96

  Daran, Jean Marc ^a,c   Bell, Walter ^a   François, Jean ^a,b  

^a UMR792 INGÉNIERIE DES SYSTÈMES BIOLOGIQUES ET DES PROCÉDÉS   (France)

^b INSA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Metabolic flux; Regulatable promoter; Storage carbohydrate; Uridine diphosphoglucose; Yeast

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; GLYCOGEN; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; THIAMINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CELL WALL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE FUSION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST CELL;

CELL WALL; MUTATION; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THIAMINE; TREHALOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030860202     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00240-1     Document Type: Article

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