Expression of a plant serine O-acetyltransferase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae confers osmotic tolerance and creates an alternative pathway for cysteine biosynthesis

Yeast

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 303-312

  Mulet, Jose M ^a   Alemany, Beatriz ^a   Ros, Roc ^b   Calvete, Juan J ^c   Serrano, Ramon ^a  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cysteine biosynthesis; Heterologous expression; Osmotic stress; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HOMOSERINE; LYASE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUGAR BEET;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA VULGARIS; CYSTEINE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1842525038     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1076     Document Type: Article

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