The D-xylose reductase of Hypocrea jecorina is the major aldose reductase in pentose and D-galactose catabolism and necessary for β-galactosidase and cellulase induction by lactose

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 890-900

  Seiboth, Bernhard ^a   Gamauf, Christian ^a   Pail, Manuela ^a,b   Hartl, Lukas ^a   Kubicek, Christian P ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; ARABINITOL; ARABINOSE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE 1,4 BETA CELLOBIOSIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GALACTITOL; GALACTOSE; LACTOSE; PENTOSE; PROTEIN XYL1; PROTEIN XYR1; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLITOL; XYLOSE; XYLOSE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLISM; CBH1 GENE; ENZYME INDUCTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; HYPOCREA; HYPOCREA JECORINA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XYL1 GENE;

ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELLULASE; ENZYME INDUCTION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GALACTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPOCREA; LACTOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENTOSES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HYPOCREA JECORINA;

EID: 35748970166     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05953.x     Document Type: Article

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