Properties of Aspergillus niger citrate synthase and effects of citA overexpression on citric acid production

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-40

  Ruijter, George J G ^a   Panneman, Henk ^a   Xu, Ding Bang ^a   Visser, Jaap ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; Citrate synthase; Citric acid production; Dye affinity chromatography; Overexpression

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; CITRIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACETYL COENZYME A; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CITRIC ACID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXALOACETATES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033975457     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00018-5     Document Type: Article

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