Isolation of Aspergillus niger creA mutants and effects of the mutations on expression of arabinases and L-arabinose catabolic enzymes

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2991-2998

  Ruijter, George J G ^a   Vanhanen, Sipo A ^a,b   Gielkens, Marco M C ^a   Van De Vondervoort, Peter J I ^a   Visser, Jaap ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabinase; Aspergillus niger; Carbon repression; creA; L arabinose

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; ARABINOSE; CARBON; NITROGEN; PROLINE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; METABOLIC INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030875380     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-9-2991     Document Type: Article

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