Strategies for strain improvement in Fusarium fujikuroi: Overexpression and localization of key enzymes of the isoprenoid pathway and their impact on gibberellin biosynthesis

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2979-2995

  Albermann, Sabine ^a   Linnemannstöns, Pia ^a   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

ent copalyldiphosphate synthase ent kaurene synthase; Fusarium fujikuroi; Geranylgeryanyldiphosphate synthase; Gibberellic acid; Hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COENZYME A; FUSARIUM; GERANYLGERANYL DIPHOSPHATE; GIBBERELLIC ACID; GIBBERELLIN BIOSYNTHESIS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SYNTHASES;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; AGRICULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH KINETICS; LIPIDS; STRAIN;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

GIBBERELLIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; ISOPRENOID; MEVALONIC ACID;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL ORGANELLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH REGULATOR; HORMONE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; ISOPRENOID; PATHOGEN; PIGMENT; RICE; SECONDARY METABOLITE; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM FUJIKUROI; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CYTOSOL; ENZYMES; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GIBBERELLINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TERPENES;

GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI;

EID: 84876681040     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4377-5     Document Type: Article

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