Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for caffeine and theobromine production

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Jin, Lu ^a   Bhuiya, Mohammad Wadud ^b   Li, Mengmeng ^a   Liu, XiangQi ^a   Han, Jixiang ^b   Deng, WeiWei ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Yu, Oliver ^c   Zhang, Zhengzhu ^a  

^a ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Conagen Inc ^*  (United States)

^c DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; CAFFEINE; CAFFEINE SYNTHASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHENYLALANINE; SYNTHETASE; THEOBROMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; XANTHOSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; 7-METHYLXANTHOSINE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; COFFEA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PROCEDURES;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAFFEINE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; COFFEA; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THEOBROMINE;

EID: 84939121904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105368     Document Type: Article

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