Figure 2.

Effect of the β-monocyclase on the α-carotene production. HPLC chromatograms of the extracts from E. coli having the plasmids pAC-HIEBIYm (A), pAC-HIEBIA (B), pAC-HIEBIA-MpLCYe (C) and pAC-HIEBI-MpLCYeA (D). 1, β-carotene; 2, lycopene; 3, γ-carotene; 4, α-carotene.