Comparison of three 3' non-coding regions in Schizosaccharomyces pombe expression vectors: Efficiencies of transcription termination and mRNA 3'-end formation

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-158

  Patrikakis, Margaret ^a   Izant, Jonathan G ^a   Atkins, David ^a  

^a JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

Author keywords

3' processing; Expression vectors; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Transcriptional interference

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SHUTTLE VECTOR; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VECTORS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0029764288     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050114     Document Type: Article

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