Isolation and characterization of the carotenoid biosynthesis genes of Flavobacterium sp. strain R1534

Gene

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-41

  Pasamontes, Luis ^a   Hug, Denis ^a   Tessier, Michel ^a   Hohmann, Hans Peter ^a   Schierle, Joseph ^a   Van Loon, Adolphus P G M ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cloning; Geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase; Gram negative bacterium; Lycopene cyclase carotene hydroxylase; Phytoene synthase phytoene desaturase; Zeaxanthin

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; ZEAXANTHIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BETA CAROTENE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTRAMOLECULAR LYASES; ISOMERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFERASES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; XANTHOPHYLLS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM SP.; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031025703     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00624-5     Document Type: Article

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