High-level expression of a sweet protein, monellin, in the food yeast Candida utilis

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 453-457

  Kondo, Keiji ^a   Miura, Yutaka ^a   Sone, Hidetaka ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuo ^a   Lijima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Candida utilis; food yeast; heterologous gene expression; monellin

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MONELLIN;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CANDIDA UTILIS; FOOD INDUSTRY; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SWEETNESS;

CANDIDA; PICHIA JADINII;

EID: 0030903928     PISSN: 0733222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0597-453     Document Type: Article

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