Construction of a Candida utilis strain with ratio-optimized expression of xylose-metabolizing enzyme genes by cocktail multicopy integration method

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 532-539

  Tamakawa, Hideyuki ^a   Ikushima, Shigehito ^a   Yoshida, Satoshi ^a  

^a KIRIN HOLDINGS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Candida utilis; Cocktail multicopy integration; Ethanol fermentation; Xylitol dehydrogenase; Xylose; Xylose reductase; Xylulokinase

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA UTILIS; ETHANOL FERMENTATION; MULTI COPIES; XYLITOL DEHYDROGENASE; XYLOSE REDUCTASE; XYLULOKINASE;

CANDIDA; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; XYLOSE; YEAST;

ETHANOL;

ALCOHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLITOL DEHYDROGENASE; XYLOSE; XYLOSE REDUCTASE; XYLULOKINASE;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA SHEHATAE; COCKTAIL MULTICOPY INTEGRATION METHOD; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA JADINII; PLASMID; PROCEDURES;

CANDIDA SHEHATAE; PICHIA JADINII; PICHIA STIPITIS;

EID: 84876345167     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: 13474421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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