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A Robotic Platform for High-throughput Protoplast Isolation and Transformation
Published on: September 27, 2016
[Study on breeding up high-yield strain of taxol by protoplast mutagensis]
Kai Zhao1, Dong-Po Zhou, Wen-Xiang Ping
1Life and Science College of Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China.
Abstract:
In order to obtain resistant mutants to nystatin, ultraviolet radiation and LiCl were used to mutagenize the protoplasts of taxol-producing fungi NCEU-1, and four positive mutants with high yield of taxol were screened out on nystatin flat. After further screening experiments on fermentation, a mutant strain--UL04-5 which was able to produce taxol with high yield and could be stably passed on in genetics was eventually found, it's ability to produce taxol was improved from 314.07 microg/L (strain NCEU-1) to 418.24 microg/L (strain U04-5).
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