Insights from the Fungus Fusarium oxysporum Point to High Affinity Glucose Transporters as Targets for Enhancing Ethanol Production from Lignocellulose

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ali, Shahin S ^a   Nugent, Brian ^a   Mullins, Ewen ^b   Doohan, Fiona M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BETA TUBULIN; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; LIGNOCELLULOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RGT2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOSE;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BETA TUBULIN GENE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HEXOSE TRANSPORTER GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAW;

BIOFUELS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; KINETICS; LIGNIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XYLOSE;

EID: 84873834052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054701     Document Type: Article

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