Comparative genomics and transcriptome analysis of Aspergillus Niger and metabolic engineering for citrate production

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Yin, Xian ^a   Shin, Hyun Dong ^b   Li, Jianghua ^a   Du, Guocheng ^a   Liu, Long ^a   Chen, Jian ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CITRIC ACID; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85010304126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep41040     Document Type: Article

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