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Construction of a flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermenting lactose.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 May 1999
Domingues L, Teixeira J A, Lima N
Abstract excerpt
A flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with the ability to express both the LAC4 (coding for beta-galactosidase) and LAC12 (coding for lactose permease) genes of Kluyveromyces marxianus was constructed. This recombinant strain is not only able to grow on lactose, but it can also ferment this substrate. To our knowledge this is the first time that a recombinant S. cervisiae has been found to ferment lactose...
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