Microbial Cell Factories

Table 2 Amount of β-carotene accumulated by mutants affected in carotenoid biosynthesis

From: A new regulatory mechanism controlling carotenogenesis in the fungus Mucor circinelloides as a target to generate β-carotene over-producing strains by genetic engineering

Strain	β-carotene (μg/g dry mass)
Strain	Dark	Light
Wild type (R7B)	8.6 ± 2.6^ab	170.8 ± 11.9^d
MU206	81.6 ± 9.4^d	254.7 ± 24.1^e
MU216	4.8 ± 0.4^ab	119.7 ± 16.9^c
MU217	6.0 ± 0.6^ab	75.7 ± 8.1^b
MU218	63.1 ± 6.3^c	736.1 ± 20.3^f
MU264	0.0 ± 0.0^a	0.0 ± 0.0^a
MU282	8.2 ± 0.2^ab	165.8 ± 8.5^d
MU283	5.5 ± 0.8^ab	71.3 ± 11.5^b
MU285	12.0 ± 2.0^b	54.8 ± 5.5^b
MU286	8.9 ± 1.6^ab	47.2 ± 9.0^b

^a–fValues are mean ± standard deviation of at least three independent experiments and values within a column with different superscript letters were significantly different (p < 0.05)

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