Isolation and Characterization of a Gene Specific to Lager Brewing Yeast That Encodes a Branched-Chain Amino Acid Permease

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3455-3462

  Kodama, Yukiko ^a   Omura, Fumihiko ^a   Ashikari, Toshihiko ^a  

^a SUNTORY LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; BAP2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; CARRIER PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BEER; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMID; SACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; BEER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035434752     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3455-3462.2001     Document Type: Article

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