A new high-performance heterologous fungal expression system based on regulatory elements from the Aspergillus terreus terrein gene cluster

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Gressler, Markus ^a   Hortschansky, Peter ^a   Geib, Elena ^a   Brock, Matthias ^a,b  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; DNA binding motif; Reporter strains; Secondary metabolites; Thioesterase domain; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; GENOMIC DNA; LECANORIC ACID; SYNTHETASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ISOLATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERREIN GENE;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 84927169379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00184     Document Type: Article

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