Engineering increased triacylglycerol accumulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a modified type 1 plant diacylglycerol acyltransferase

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2243-2253

  Greer, Michael S ^a   Truksa, Martin ^a,b   Deng, Wei ^a,c   Lung, Shiu Cheung ^a   Chen, Guanqun ^a   Weselake, Randall J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education   (Canada)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Brassica napus; DGAT; Storage lipid synthesis; Yeast

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOFUELS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLYCEROL; LIPIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); YEAST;

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BRASSICA NAPUS; DGAT; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASES; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; N-TERMINAL SEQUENCES; STORAGE LIPIDS; TRANSCRIPTIONALLY ACTIVE;

FATTY ACIDS;

DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 1; POLYPEPTIDE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; FATTY ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID STORAGE; NONHUMAN; RAPESEED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BRASSICA NAPUS; DIACYLGLYCEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84925507673     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-6284-4     Document Type: Article

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