A moth pheromone brewery: Production of (Z)-11-hexadecenol by heterologous co-expression of two biosynthetic genes from a noctuid moth in a yeast cell factory

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hagström, Åsa K ^a   Wang, Hong Lei ^a   Liénard, Marjorie A ^a,b   Lassance, Jean Marc ^a,b   Johansson, Tomas ^a   Löfstedt, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(Z) 11 HEXADECENOL; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; PALMITIC ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

AGROTIS SEGETUM; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LEPIDOPTERA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOTH; NOCTUIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEST CONTROL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECURSOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHESIS; TURNIP; YEAST CELL;

AGROTIS SEGETUM; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NOCTUIDAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALDEHYDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHEROMONES; YEASTS;

EID: 84889954908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-125     Document Type: Article

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