Inducible amplification of gene copy number and heterologous protein production in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4808-4813

  Morlino, Giovanni B ^a   Tizzani, Lorenza ^a   Fleer, Reinhard ^b   Frontali, Laura ^a   Bianchi, Michele M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN 1,4 ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PLASMID VECTOR; PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISOME; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC STABILITY; HOST; KLUYVEROMYCES; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; YEAST;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 0032705562     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.11.4808-4813.1999     Document Type: Article

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