Investigation of malic acid production in aspergillus oryzae under nitrogen starvation conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6050-6058

  Knuf, Christoph ^a   Nookaew, Intawat ^a   Brown, Stephen H ^b   McCulloch, Michael ^b   Berry, Alan ^b   Nielsen, Jens ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Novozymes Biotech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; NITROGEN STARVATION; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE YEAST; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES; TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRIC PRODUCTION;

ASPERGILLUS; YEAST;

NITROGEN;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOTYPE; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC ACID; SECRETION; STARVATION; YEAST;

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; MALIC ACID; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALATES; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; NITROGEN;

EID: 84884186067     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01445-13     Document Type: Article

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