Cloning, sequencing and expressing the carotenoid biosynthesis genes, lycopene cyclase and phytoene desaturase, from the aerobic photosynthetic bacterium Erythrobacter longus sp. strain Och101 in Escherichia coli

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 169-174

  Matsumura, Haruo ^b   Takeyama, Haruko ^a   Kusakabe, Etsuko ^b   Burgess, J Grant ^a   Matsunaga, Tadashi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ASAHI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

crtI; crtY; Lycopene; carotene

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CAROTENOID; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; LYCOPENE; OXYGENASE; SYNTHETASE; ZEAXANTHIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ERYTHROBACTER LONGUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PANTOEA ANANATIS; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 0030902310     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00788-3     Document Type: Article

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