Increasing cocoa butter-like lipid production of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by expression of selected cocoa genes

AMB Express

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Wei, Yongjun ^a   Gossing, Michael ^a   Bergenholm, David ^a   Siewers, Verena ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Technical University of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cell factories; Cocoa butter like lipids; Metabolic engineering; Phylogenetic analysis; Synthetic biology; TAG biosynthetic genes

Indexed keywords

CBL PROTEIN; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; FATTY ACID; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPID; THEOBROMA OIL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CACAO; COCOA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 85011884621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21910855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13568-017-0333-1     Document Type: Article

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