Effects of nitrogen availability on polymalic acid biosynthesis in the yeast-like fungus Aureobasidium pullulans

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Yongkang ^a   Song, Xiaodan ^a   Zhang, Yongjun ^a   Wang, Bochu ^b   Zou, Xiang ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aureobasidium pullulans; Nitrogen availability; Polymalic acid; Proteomics; TOR signaling pathway; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

POLYESTER; POLYMALIC ACID; PROTEASOME; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; MALIC ACID; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; POLY(MALIC ACID); POLYMER; RAPAMYCIN;

ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CS GENE; DAT GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FUM GENE; FUNGAL GENE; GAT1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLK GENE; GS GENE; HYDROLYSIS; MCL GENE; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAP42 GENE; TOR1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ASCOMYCETES; BIOREACTOR; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; BIOREACTORS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, FUNGAL; HYDROLYSIS; MALATES; NITROGEN; POLYMERS; PROTEOMICS; RIBOSOMES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 84983335766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-016-0547-y     Document Type: Article

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