Engineering a β-carotene ketolase for astaxanthin production

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 523-531

  Tao, Luan ^a   Wilczek, Jolanta ^a   Odom, J Martin ^a   Cheng, Qiong ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

carotene ketolase; Adonixanthin; Astaxanthin; Error prone PCR; Ribosomal binding site; Zeaxanthin

Indexed keywords

Β-CAROTENE KETOLASE; ADONIXANTHIN; ASTAXANTHIN; ERROR-PRONE PCR; RIBOSOMAL BINDING SITE; ZEAXANTHIN;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROCARBONS; MUTAGENESIS;

ENZYMES;

ASTAXANTHIN; BETA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE KETOLASE; CANTHAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; ENZYME; HISTIDINE; IRON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; HYDROXYLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RIBOSOME; SPHINGOMONAS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOREACTORS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAROTENOIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OXYGENASES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPHINGOMONAS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

SPHINGOMONAS SP.;

EID: 33749451187     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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