Blakeslea trispora is a natural source of carotenoids,includingβ-carotene and lycopene,which have industrial applications.Therefore,classical selective breeding techniques have been applied to generate strains with i...Blakeslea trispora is a natural source of carotenoids,includingβ-carotene and lycopene,which have industrial applications.Therefore,classical selective breeding techniques have been applied to generate strains with increased productivity,and microencapsulatedβ-carotene preparation has been used in food industry(Li et al.,2019).In B.trispora,lycopene is synthesized via the mevalonate pathway(Venkateshwaran et al.,2015).Lycopene cyclase,which is one of the key enzymes in this pathway,is a bifunctional enzyme that can catalyze the cyclization of lycopene to produceβ-carotene and exhibit phytoene synthase activity(He et al.,2017).展开更多
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文摘Blakeslea trispora is a natural source of carotenoids,includingβ-carotene and lycopene,which have industrial applications.Therefore,classical selective breeding techniques have been applied to generate strains with increased productivity,and microencapsulatedβ-carotene preparation has been used in food industry(Li et al.,2019).In B.trispora,lycopene is synthesized via the mevalonate pathway(Venkateshwaran et al.,2015).Lycopene cyclase,which is one of the key enzymes in this pathway,is a bifunctional enzyme that can catalyze the cyclization of lycopene to produceβ-carotene and exhibit phytoene synthase activity(He et al.,2017).
