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Engineering yeast metabolism for improved food manufacture
Reference
BBS/E/F/02200746
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Professor Michael Schweizer
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution
Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department
Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
132,290
Status
Completed
Type
Institute Project
Start date
01/04/1997
End date
31/03/1998
Duration
12 months
Abstract
It is intended to reprogramme the lipid biosynthetic machinery of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce short chain fatty acids. The approach taken will be to render the intrinsic fatty acid synthase (FAS) and elongase systems inactive by dint of producing stable mutations in their relevant genes and this yeast strain will be used for the heterologous expression of a system synthesizing short chain fatty acids.
Summary
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Committee
Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics
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Research Priority
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Research Initiative
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Funding Scheme
X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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