The Penicillium chrysogenum transporter PcAraT enables high-affinity, glucose-insensitive l-arabinose transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Bracher, Jasmine M ^a   Verhoeven, Maarten D ^a   Wisselink, H Wouter ^a,d   Crimi, Barbara ^a,e   Nijland, Jeroen G ^b   Driessen, Arnold J M ^b   Klaassen, Paul ^c   Van Maris, Antonius J A ^a,f   Daran, Jean Marc G ^a   Pronk, Jack T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c DSM RESOLVE   (Netherlands)

^d Isobionics   (Netherlands)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

l Arabinose transporter; Metabolic engineering; Penicillium; Proton symport; Second generation bioethanol; Sugar transport; Transcriptome; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTATS; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; XYLOSE; YEAST;

L-ARABINOSE; PENICILLIUM; SECOND GENERATION BIOETHANOL; SUGAR TRANSPORT; SYMPORTS; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

BIOFUEL; CELLULOSE; ETHANOL; FUNGUS; GLUCOSE; LIGNIN; METABOLISM; YEAST;

FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 85043713507     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-018-1047-6     Document Type: Article

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