Identification of genes affecting lycopene formation in Escherichia coli transformed with carotenoid biosynthetic genes: Candidates for early genes in isoprenoid biosynthesis

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1088-1096

  Hemmi, Hisashi ^a   Ohnuma, Shin Ichi ^a,b   Nagaoka, Kuniaki ^a   Nishino, Tokuzo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Complement; Escherichia coli; Isoprenoid; Mutant

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; ISOPRENOID; LYCOPENE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031780756     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022047     Document Type: Article

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