Improvement of yeast tolerance to acetic acid through Haa1 transcription factor engineering: Towards the underlying mechanisms

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Swinnen, Steve ^a   Henriques, Sílvia F ^b   Shrestha, Ranjan ^a   Ho, Ping Wei ^a   Sá Correia, Isabel ^b   Nevoigt, Elke ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acetic acid tolerance; Haa1; Response and adaptation to acetic acid; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Transcription factor engineering

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE; HAA1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; PLASMID DNA; SERINE; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HAA1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GLOBAL TRANSCRIPTION MACHINERY ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REGULON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION;

ACETIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85011347801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-016-0621-5     Document Type: Article

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