Transcriptional regulation of xyr1, encoding the main regulator of the xylanolytic and cellulolytic enzyme system in Hypocrea jecorina

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 6554-6562

  Mach Aigner, Astrid R ^a   Pucher, Marion E ^a   Steiger, Matthias G ^a   Bauer, Gudrun E ^a   Preis, Sonja J ^a   Mach, Robert L ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAST FIBERS; CARBON; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENZYMES; GENES; GLUCOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CARBON CATABOLITE REPRESSIONS; CARBON SOURCES; CELLULOLYTIC ENZYME SYSTEMS; CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSIONS; DE NOVO SYNTHESIS; ENCODING; ENCODING GENES; HYDROLASE; HYPOCREA JECORINA; PARENTAL STRAINS; STRAIN IMPROVEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATIONS; XYLANASE; XYLANOLYTIC ENZYMES;

TRANSCRIPTION;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN XYR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

CARBON; CELLULOSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOCREA; HYPOCREA JECORINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CARBON; CELLULASES; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCOSE; HYPOCREA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HYPOCREA JECORINA;

EID: 55049124006     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01143-08     Document Type: Article

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