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An engineered cryptic Hxt11 sugar transporter facilitates glucose-xylose co-consumption in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Hyun Yong Shin1, Jeroen G Nijland1, Paul P de Waal2

  • 1Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.

Biotechnology for Biofuels
|November 5, 2015
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Keywords:
Directed evolutionLignocellulose conversionSugar transportYeast

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