Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for astaxanthin production and oxidative stress tolerance

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7205-7211

  Ukibe, Ken ^a   Hashida, Keisuke ^a   Yoshida, Nobuyuki ^a   Takagi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PIGMENTS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL; CYTOCHROME P450 ENZYMES; CYTOCHROME P450 REDUCTASE; FARNESYL PYROPHOSPHATES; PHYTOENE DESATURASE; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; XANTHOPHYLLOMYCES DENDRORHOUS;

YEAST;

ASTAXANTHIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE KETOLASE; CANTHAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; CRTR ENZYME; ECHINENONE; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; PHYTOENE DESATURASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEAXANTHIN;

BIOENGINEERING; CAROTENOID; CYTOCHROME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; TOLERANCE; YEAST;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BTS1 GENE; CRTS GENE; CRTW GENE; CRTZ GENE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; XANTHOPHYLLOMYCES DENDRORHOUS; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; XANTHOPHYLLOMYCES DENDRORHOUS;

EID: 70449396286     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01249-09     Document Type: Article

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