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SUBMITTER: Lodato P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC169127 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lodato P P Alcaino J J Barahona S S Retamales P P Cifuentes V V
Applied and environmental microbiology 20030801 8
Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is one of the relevant sources of the carotenoid astaxanthin. In this paper, we describe for the first time cloning of unexpected cDNAs obtained from the crtI and crtYB genes of X. dendrorhous strain UCD 67-385. The cDNA of the crtI gene conserves 80 bp of the first intron, while the cDNA of the crtYB gene conserves 55 bp of the first intron and lacks 111 bp of the second exon. The crtI and crtYB RNAs could be spliced in alternative splice sites, which produced alte ...[more]