Metabolic engineering of the fungal D-galacturonate pathway for L-ascorbic acid production

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kuivanen, Joosu ^a   Penttilä, Merja ^a   Richard, Peter ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; Citrus peel; D galacturonic acid; L ascorbic acid; L galactonic acid; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; GALACTURONIC ACID; GLUCONOLACTONASE; HYDROLYASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GALACTONOLACTONE DEHYDROGENASE; HEXURONIC ACID; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CARBON SOURCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; LACTONIZATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PH; PROMOTER REGION; BATCH CELL CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MALPIGHIACEAE; METABOLISM; PLASMID;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CITRUS; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FUNGI; MALPIGHIA GLABRA;

ASCORBIC ACID; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BATCH CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HYDRO-LYASES; MALPIGHIACEAE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84924067486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-014-0184-2     Document Type: Article

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