The expressions of Δ9-, Δ12-desaturases and an elongase by the extremely halotolerant black yeast Hortaea werneckii are salt dependent

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-256

  Gostinčar, Cene ^a   Turk, Martina ^a   Plemenitaš, Ana ^b   Gunde Cimerman, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Desaturase; Elongase; Extremotolerance; Halotolerance; Hortaea werneckii; Salt stress

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; DELTA 12 DESATURASE; ELONGASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORTAEA WERNECKII; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; HYPOOSMOTIC STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALINITY; SALT STRESS; SALT TOLERANCE; YEAST;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYLOGENY; SALTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; FUNGI; HORTAEA WERNECKII;

EID: 59149100767     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2009.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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