Construction of a cellulase hyper-expression system in Trichoderma reesei by promoter and enzyme engineering

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zou, Gen ^a   Shi, Shaohua ^a   Jiang, Yanping ^a   van den Brink, Joost ^b   de Vries, Ronald P ^b   Chen, Ling ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Ma, Liang ^a   Wang, Chengshu ^a   Zhou, Zhihua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cellulase; Fusion protein; Heterologous expression; Site specific mutagenesis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CBH1 PROTEIN; CELLULASE; GLYCOPROTEIN E1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACEII PROTEIN, T. REESEI; FLAD PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME STABILITY; FUSION GENE; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERMOSTABILITY; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA REESI; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

ACIDOTHERMUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYPOCREA JECORINA; ZEA MAYS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CELLULASE; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 84862799742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-11-21     Document Type: Article

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