Functional analysis of two L-arabinose transporters from filamentous fungi reveals promising characteristics for improved pentose utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4062-4070

  Li, Jingen ^a   Xu, Jing ^a,c   Cai, Pengli ^a   Wang, Bang ^a   Ma, Yanhe ^a   Benz, J Philipp ^b   Tian, Chaoguang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; STRAIN;

BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; LIGNOCELLULOSIC HYDROLYSATES; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; MYCELIOPHTHORA THERMOPHILA; PENTOSE UTILIZATIONS; RECOMBINANT STRAINS;

YEAST;

BIOENGINEERING; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MONOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE; YEAST;

CORYNASCUS HETEROTHALLICUS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALCOHOL; ARABINOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; PENTOSE; XYLOSE;

BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SORDARIALES; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABINOSE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOMASS; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PENTOSES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SORDARIALES; XYLOSE;

EID: 84929937225     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00165-15     Document Type: Article

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