Sterol uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae heme auxotrophic mutants is affected by ergosterol and oleate but not by palmitoleate or by sterol esterification

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1913-1919

  Ness, Frédérique ^a,b   Achstetter, Tilman ^a   Duport, Catherine ^c   Karst, Francis ^b   Spagnoli, Roberto ^d   Degryse, Eric ^a  

^a TRANSGENE S A   (France)

^b IBMIG Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et dIngenierie Genetique   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGOSTEROL; HEME; MEVALONIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; STEROL;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTERIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

NEGIBACTERIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031946493     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.7.1913-1919.1998     Document Type: Article

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