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Positive selection of novel peroxisome biogenesis-defective mutants of the yeast Pichia pastoris.
Genetics - 1 Apr 1999
Johnson M A, Waterham H R, Ksheminska G P, Fayura L R, Cereghino J L, Stasyk O V, Veenhuis M, Kulachkovsky A R, Sibirny A A, Cregg J M
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We have developed two novel schemes for the direct selection of peroxisome-biogenesis-defective (pex) mutants of the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. Both schemes take advantage of our observation that methanol-induced pex mutants contain little or no alcohol oxidase (AOX) activity. AOX is a peroxisomal matrix enzyme that catalyzes the first step in the methanol-utilization pathway. One scheme utilizes allyl...
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