Cloning and characterization of the asta
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Jan C. Verdoes; Norihiko Misawa; Albert J. J. van Ooyen
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The first carotenoid biosynthetic gene from the basidiomycetous yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous was isolated by heterologous complementation in Escherichia coli. The isolated gene, denominated as crtI, was found to encode for phytoene desaturase. The coding region is interrupted by 11 introns. T