Identification of the orotidine-5′-monophosphate decarboxylase gene of the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides

Yeast

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 623-630

  Yang, Fan ^a,b   Zhang, Sufang ^a   Tang, Wei ^a,b   Zhao, Zongbao K ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Complementation; Lipids; Orotidine 5 monophosphate decarboxylase; Restriction free cloning; Rhodosporidium toruloides

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYPEPTIDE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULOIDES; RNA ISOLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULOIDES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 53349144465     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1607     Document Type: Article

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