Bio-crude transcriptomics: Gene discovery and metabolic network reconstruction for the biosynthesis of the terpenome of the hydrocarbon oil-producing green alga, Botryococcus braunii race B (Showa)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Molnár, István ^a   Lopez, David ^b   Wisecaver, Jennifer H ^c   Devarenne, Timothy P ^d   Weiss, Taylor L ^d   Pellegrini, Matteo ^b   Hackett, Jeremiah D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Autophagy; Biofuel; Botryococcene; Botryococcus braunii; Fatty acid biosynthesis; Starch biosynthesis; Terpene biosynthesis; Transcriptome; Triacylglycerol biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; DITERPENOID; HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM; PLANT RNA; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; STARCH; TERPENE; TERPENOID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BOTRYOCOCCUS BRAUNII; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC STRAIN; LIPOGENESIS; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT METABOLISM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PYROSEQUENCING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BIOFUELS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOPOLYMERS; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYTA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT OILS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STARCH; TERPENES; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRIGLYCERIDES;

ALGAE; BOTRYOCOCCUS BRAUNII; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84867896016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-576     Document Type: Article

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