Engineering transcription factors to improve tolerance against alkane biofuels in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ling, Hua ^a,b   Pratomo Juwono, Nina Kurniasih ^a,b   Teo, Wei Suong ^a,b   Liu, Ruirui ^a,b   Leong, Susanna Su Jan ^a,b,c   Chang, Matthew Wook ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Alkanes; Biofuels; Pleiotropic drug resistance; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Site mutagenesis; Tolerance; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; DRUG THERAPY; FITS AND TOLERANCES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; PARAFFINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YEAST;

DRUG RESISTANCE; EXPRESSION PATTERNS; MEMBRANE MODIFICATION; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SITE MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ALKANE; BIOFUEL; DRUG RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTAGENICITY; TOLERANCE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84952305527     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0411-z     Document Type: Article

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