Metabolic engineering of the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides IFO0880 for lipid overproduction during high-density fermentation

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 100, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 9393-9405

  Zhang, Shuyan ^a   Ito, Masakazu ^b,c   Skerker, Jeffrey M ^b,c   Arkin, Adam P ^b,c   Rao, Christopher V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lipids; Metabolic engineering; Oleaginous yeast; Rhodosporidium toruloides

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; LIPIDS; METABOLISM; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTIVITY; YEAST;

ACETYL-COA CARBOXYLASE; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASES; HIGH DENSITY FERMENTATIONS; OLEAGINOUS YEASTS; PEROXISOME BIOGENESIS; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULOIDES; STEAROYL-COA DESATURASE;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 1; GENOMIC DNA; GLYCEROL 3 P DEHYDROGENASE; LIPID; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENZYME;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID; YEAST;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; FED BATCH FERMENTATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROXISOME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULOIDES; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; RHODOTORULA;

RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULOIDES;

ENZYMES; FERMENTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; RHODOTORULA;

EID: 84988727887     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-7815-y     Document Type: Article

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