Accumulation of squalene in a microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by genetic modification of squalene synthase and squalene epoxidase genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Kajikawa, Masataka ^a   Kinohira, Seiko ^a   Ando, Akira ^b   Shimoyama, Miki ^b   Kato, Misako ^b   Fukuzawa, Hideya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SQUALENE; SQUALENE MONOOXYGENASE; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STEROL; TERBINAFINE;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CATALYSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; YEAST;

ALLIUM CEPA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MUTATION; NAPHTHALENES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SQUALENE; SQUALENE MONOOXYGENASE; STEROLS; YEASTS;

EID: 84928920473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120446     Document Type: Article

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