Overexpression of the calcineurin target CRZ1 provides freeze tolerance and enhances the fermentative capacity of baker's yeast

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4824-4831

  Panadero, Joaquín ^a   Hernández López, Maria José ^a,b   Prieto, José Antonio ^a   Randez Gil, Francisca ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^b Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENZYME KINETICS; FERMENTATION; FREEZING; OSMOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CALCINEURIN; FREEZE RESISTANCE; TORULASPORA DELBRUECKII;

YEAST;

CALCINEURIN; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

DICOTYLEDON; FERMENTATION; FREEZE TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WHEAT; YEAST;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CNB1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRZ1 GENE; CRZ1P GENE; DOUGH; FERMENTATION; FREEZING; FTZ GENE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STZ GENE; TORULASPORA DELBRUECKII; YEAST;

BREAD; CALCINEURIN; FERMENTATION; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UP-REGULATION; ZINC FINGERS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TORULASPORA DELBRUECKII;

EID: 34547750334     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02651-06     Document Type: Article

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