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Engineering Pichia pastoris for the Production of Carotenoids

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Microbial Carotenoids

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1852))

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Carotenoids are one of the most diverse and widely distributed classes of pigments in the biosphere and exhibit a variety of functions in the nature. Their importance and biotechnological applications are higher and higher, but their sources are not increasing in the same exponential way. Here we describe the process of bioengineering the yeast Pichia pastoris by sequential transformation to get an astaxanthin producer.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Patricia Veiga-Crespo, José Miguel Araya-Garay & Tomás G. Villa

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    Carlos Barreiro

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Crystal Pharma, A Subsidiary of Albany, Molecular Research Inc. (AMRI), Parque Tecnológico de León, León, Spain

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Veiga-Crespo, P., Araya-Garay, J.M., Villa, T.G. (2018). Engineering Pichia pastoris for the Production of Carotenoids. In: Barreiro, C., Barredo, JL. (eds) Microbial Carotenoids. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1852. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8742-9_19

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