Study of the expression of carotenoid biosynthesis genes in wild-type and deregulated strains of xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous (ex: Phaffia rhodozyma)

Biological Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-93

  Lodato, Patricia ^a   Alcaíno, Jennifer ^a   Barahona, Salvador ^a   Retamales, Patricio ^a   Jiménez, Antonio ^b   Cifuentes, Víctor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Carotenoid biosynthesis; Overproducer strains; Phaffia rhodozyma; Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE DELTA ISOMERASE; LYCOPENE; MESSENGER RNA; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAFFIA RHODOZYMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARDIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

EUKARYOTA; PHAFFIA RHODOZYMA; XANTHOPHYLLOMYCES DENDRORHOUS;

EID: 2942740812     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602004000100009     Document Type: Article

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