Cloning and characterization of two pyruvate decarboxylase genes from Pichia stipitis CBS 6054

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 94-97

  Lu, Ping ^b   Davis, Brian P ^c   Jeffries, Thomas W ^a  

^a FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Scriptgen Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENDOMYCETALES; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

FUNGI; HANSENIASPORA UVARUM; KLUYVEROMYCES MARXIANUS; MYXOGASTRIA; PICHIA STIPITIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0031985532     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.94-97.1998     Document Type: Article

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