Increased carotenoid production by the food yeast Candida utilis through metabolic engineering of the isoprenoid pathway

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2676-2680

  Shimada, Hiroshi ^a,b   Kondo, Keiji ^a   Fraser, Paul D ^a,c   Miura, Yutaka ^a   Saito, Toshiko ^a   Misawa, Norihiko ^a  

^a KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; ISOPRENOID; LYCOPENE; PRENYLLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA UTILIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA UTILIS; PICHIA JADINII;

EID: 0031843028     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2676-2680.1998     Document Type: Article

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