5-Aminolevulinic acid fermentation using engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Abstract Background 5′-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, and food production, and is a substrate for the biosynthesis of heme, which is required for respiration and photosynthesis. Enhancement of ALA biosynthesis has never been developed in Saccharo...

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Main Authors: Kiyotaka Y. Hara, Masaru Saito, Hiroko Kato, Kana Morikawa, Hiroshi Kikukawa, Hironari Nomura, Takanori Fujimoto, Yoko Hirono-Hara, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Kengo Kanamaru, Akihiko Kondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12934-019-1242-6