Existence of cerebroside in Saccharomyces kluyveri and its related species

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 533-538

  Takakuwa, Naoya ^a   Kinoshita, Mikio ^a   Oda, Yuji ^b   Ohnishi, Masao ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Agriculture and Food Research Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebroside; Glucosylceramide synthase; Kluyveromyces lactis; Saccharomyces kluyveri

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; CERAMIDE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; CEREBROSIDE; INOSITOL DERIVATIVE; SPHINGOLIPID; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES THERMOTOLERANS; KLUYVEROMYCES WALTII; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA PASTORIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES CIDRI; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES FERMENTATI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; KLUYVEROMYCES THERMOTOLERANS; KLUYVEROMYCES WALTII; PICHIA PASTORIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; TORULASPORA; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES CIDRI; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES FERMENTATI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CEREBROSIDES; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 0036892482     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1356(02)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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