Transcriptional upregulation of four genes of the lysine biosynthetic pathway by homocitrate accumulation in Penicillium chrysogenum: Homocitrate as a sensor of lysine-pathway distress

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3881-3892

  Teves, Franco ^a   Lamas Maceiras, Mónica ^a   García Estrada, Carlos ^b   Casqueiro, Javier ^a,b   Naranjo, Leopoldo ^a,c   Ullán, Ricardo V ^b   Scervino, José Martín ^b   Wu, Xiaobin ^b   Velasco Conde, Tania ^b   Martín, Juan F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b Institute of Biotechnology INBIOTEC Parque Científico de León   (Spain)

^c Fundacion Instituto de Estudios Avanzados IDEA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; ASPARTIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCINE; HOMOCITRATE; HOMOCITRATE SYNTHASE; LYSINE; PROTEIN LYS1; PROTEIN LYS2; PROTEIN LYS3; PROTEIN LYS4; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYDRO-LYASES; LYSINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; POINT MUTATION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; UP-REGULATION;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 71449102605     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.031005-0     Document Type: Article

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