Construction of a single PEP4 allele deletion in Saccharomyces carlsbergensis and a preliminary evaluation of its brewing performance

Journal of the Institute of Brewing

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 322-328

  Hao, Junguang ^a,b   Dong, Jianjun ^b   Speers, R Alex ^c   Shen, Wei ^a   Shan, Lianju ^b   Fan, Wei ^b   Li, Qi ^a   Gu, Guoxian ^a   Chen, Jian ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGTAO BREWERY CO LTD   (China)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beer foam stability; Gene disruption; PEP4; Proteinase A

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES PASTORIANUS;

EID: 62549086531     PISSN: 00469750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2050-0416.2008.tb00776.x     Document Type: Article

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