A Highly Characterized Synthetic Landing Pad System for Precise Multicopy Gene Integration in Yeast

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 2675-2685

  Bourgeois, Leanne ^a,b,c   Pyne, Michael E ^a,b   Martin, Vincent J J ^a,b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b and Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics   (Canada)

^c Hyasynth Bio   (Canada)

Author keywords

alkaloids; CRISPR; landing pad; metabolic engineering; norcoclaurine; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; BENZYLISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; NORCOCLAURINE; SYNTHETASE; SYNTHETIC DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIGASE; NORCOCLAURINE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM; DNA INTEGRATION; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE DOSAGE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ALKALOIDS; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENE EDITING; GENOME, FUNGAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 85056646138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00339     Document Type: Article

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