Role of bottom-fermenting brewer's yeast KEX2 in high temperature resistance and poor proliferation at low temperatures

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 297-312

  Yamagishi, Hiromi ^a   Ohnuki, Shinsuke ^b   Nogami, Satoru ^b   Ogata, Tomoo ^a   Ohya, Yoshikazu ^b  

^a ASAHI BREWERIES LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bottom fermenting brewer's yeast; Fermentation; High temperature resistance; KEX2; Proliferation at low temperature

Indexed keywords

KEXIN; KEXIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; KEX2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HEAT TOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES BAYANUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; COLD; CYTOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; HEAT; PHYSIOLOGY;

SACCHAROMYCES BAYANUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

COLD TEMPERATURE; FERMENTATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 77958579764     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.56.297     Document Type: Article

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