By-product formation during exposure of respiring Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultures to excess glucose is not caused by a limited capacity of pyruvate carboxylase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-113

  Bauer, Jürgen ^a   Luttik, Marijke A H ^b   Flores, Carmen Lisset ^c,d   Van Dijken, Johannes P ^b   Pronk, Jack T ^b   Niederberger, Peter ^e  

^a Lesaffre International   (France)

^b KLUYVER CENTRE FOR GENOMICS OF INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

^e NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

By product formation; PEP carboxylase; Pyruvate carboxylase; Pyruvate metabolism

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUCOSE; MALIC ACID; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVIC ACID;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CARBOXYLATION; CHEMOSTAT; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032868808     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00400-0     Document Type: Article

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