Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica for Campesterol Overproduction.

Campesterol is an important precursor for many sterol drugs, e.g. progesterone and hydrocortisone. In order to produce campesterol in Yarrowia lipolytica, C-22 desaturase encoding gene ERG5 was disrupted and the heterologous 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase (DHCR7) encoding gene was constitutively exp...

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Main Authors: Hao-Xing Du, Wen-Hai Xiao, Ying Wang, Xiao Zhou, Yu Zhang, Duo Liu, Ying-Jin Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4709189?pdf=render