Protease-deficient mutants of the Quorn® mycoprotein fungus, Fusarium graminearum A3/5

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-236

  Griffen, Alison M ^a   Novakova, Michaela ^b   Mokhtar, Seri I ^a   Wiebe, Marilyn G ^a   Robson, Geoffrey D ^a   Trinci, Anthony P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Colonial mutant; Continuous flow culture; Fusarium graminearum; Morphological mutant; Protease deficient mutant; Transformant

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS; CHEMOSTAT; DRUG MANUFACTURE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FERMENTATION; FUSARIUM; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

EID: 0032518678     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00527-2     Document Type: Article

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