Metabolic engineering of the astaxanthin-biosynthetic pathway of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-231

  Visser, Hans ^a   Van Ooyen, Albert J J ^a   Verdoes, Jan C ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GenoClipp Biotechnology bv   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Mutagenesis; Phaffia rhodozyma; Production; Recombinant DNA technology

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASTAXANTHIN; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; ISOENZYME; LYCOPENE; MUTANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETASE;

DNA MODIFICATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAFFIA RHODOZYMA; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHORT SURVEY; WILD TYPE; XANTHOPHYLLOMYCES DENDRORHOUS; YEAST;

FUNGI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PHAFFIA RHODOZYMA; XANTHOPHYLLOMYCES DENDRORHOUS;

EID: 0345118986     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1356(03)00158-2     Document Type: Review

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