%0 Journal Article
%T Gene and Gene Engineering of Carotenoid Biosynthesis<br>类胡萝卜素合成的相关基因及其基因工程
%A Jun Tao
%A Shang-Long Zhang
%A Chang-Jie Xu
%A Xin-Min An
%A Liang-Cheng Zhang
%A <br>陶俊
%A 张上隆
%A 徐昌杰
%A 安新民
%A 张良诚
%J 生物工程学报
%D 2002
%I 
%X Carotenoids have a range of diverse biological functions and actions, especially playing an important role in human health with provitamin A activity, anti-cancer activity, enhancing immune ability and so on. Human body can't synthesis carotenoids by itself and must absorb them from outside. However, carotenoid contents in many plant are very low, and many kinds of carotenoid are difficult to produce by chemical ways. With the elucidation of carotenoid biosynthetic pathway and cloning genes of relative enzymes from microorganisms and higher plants, it is possible to regulate carotenoid biosynthesis via genetic engineering. This article reviews gene cloning of carotenoid biosynthetic enzymes in microorganisms and higher plants, and advances in the studies of carotenoid production in heterologous microorganisms and crop plants using gene-manipulated carotenoid biosynthesis.
%K carotenoid
%K microorganisms
%K plant
%K gene
%K gene engineering<br>类胡萝卜素，
%K 微生物，
%K 植物，
%K 基因，
%K 基因工程
%U http://www.alljournals.cn/get_abstract_url.aspx?pcid=90BA3D13E7F3BC869AC96FB3DA594E3FE34FBF7B8BC0E591&jid=A66E90C274451689E69F6F0291467824&aid=BFF8D94B40201CB6&yid=C3ACC247184A22C1&vid=13553B2D12F347E8&iid=38B194292C032A66&sid=44A4891E33BFF455&eid=C1B34927D429E92F&journal_id=1000-3061&journal_name=生物工程学报&referenced_num=39&reference_num=52