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Genetic engineering of a sake yeast producing no urea by successive disruption of arginase gene.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 1991
Kitamoto K, Oda K, Gomi K, Takahashi K
Abstract excerpt
Urea is reported to be a main precursor of ethyl carbamate (ECA), which is suspected to be a carcinogen, in wine and sake. In order to minimize production of urea, arginase-deficient mutants (delta car1/delta car1) were constructed from a diploid sake yeast, Kyokai no. 9, by successive disruption of the two copies of the CAR1 gene. First, the yeast strain was transformed with plasmid pCAT2 (delta car1 SMR1), and...
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