Genetic transformation of a Rhizomucor pusillus mutant defective in asparagine-linked glycosylation: Production of a milk-clotting enzyme in a less-glycosylated form

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 401-409

  Yamazaki, H ^a   Ohnishi, Y ^a   Takeuchi, K ^a   Mori, N ^a   Shiraishi, N ^a   Sakata, Y ^a   Suzuki, H ^a   Horinouchi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS; ZYGOMYCETES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOSYLATION; MANNOSE; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASES; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHIZOMUCOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; URACIL;

FUNGI; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0032848623     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002530051538     Document Type: Article

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