Isolation and characterization of two squalene epoxidase genes from Botryococcus braunii, race B

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Uchida, Hidenobu ^a,b   Sumimoto, Koremitsu ^a,b   Ferriols, Victor Marco Emmanuel ^a,c   Imou, Kenji ^a   Saga, Kiyotaka ^a   Furuhashi, Kenichi ^a   Matsunaga, Shigeki ^a,b   Okada, Shigeru ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES VISAYAS   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ERGOSTEROL; SQUALENE; SQUALENE MONOOXYGENASE; PLANT DNA; PLANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BOTRYOCOCCUS BRAUNII; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPOXIDATION; ERG1 GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SQE I GENE; SQE II GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALGAE; BOTRYOCOCCUS BRAUNII; SACCHAROMYCES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SQUALENE MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84926500453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122649     Document Type: Article

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