Cloning and characterization of the Yarrowia lipolytica squalene synthase (SQS1) gene and functional complementation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae erg9 mutation

Yeast

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 197-206

  Merkulov, Sergei ^a,b   Van Assema, Friso ^a   Springer, Jan ^a   Del Carmen, Asun Fernandez ^a   Mooibroek, H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

Isoprenoids; Metabolic pathway engineering; Squalene synthase; Yarrowia lipolytica

Indexed keywords

SQUALENE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEROL SYNTHESIS; STOP CODON; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033969362     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(200002)16:3<197::AID-YEA513>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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