Establishing very long-chain fatty alcohol and wax ester biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1025-1035

  Wenning, Leonie ^a   Yu, Tao ^a   David, Florian ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^a,b   Siewers, Verena ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

jojoba like wax esters; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; very long chain monounsaturated fatty acids; very long chain monounsaturated fatty alcohols

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CHAIN LENGTH; CHAINS; CHARGE DENSITY WAVES; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; ENZYMATIC REACTION; FATTY ALCOHOLS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LONG CHAINS; PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; WAX ESTER SYNTHASE; WAX ESTERS;

YEAST;

ELONGASE ELO2P; ESTER DERIVATIVE; FATTY ACYL REDUCTASE; FATTY ALCOHOL; FUNGAL ENZYME; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ALCOHOL; WAX; WAX ESTER; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ESTER; JOJOBA WAX; LONG-CHAIN-ALCOHOL O-FATTY-ACYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DRY WEIGHT; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MARINOBACTER HYDROCARBONOCLASTICUS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS; ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MARINOBACTER; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; BEES; ESTERS; FATTY ALCOHOLS; MARINOBACTER; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WAXES;

EID: 85006118807     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.26220     Document Type: Article

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