Deletion analysis of promoter elements of the Aspergillus oryzae agdA gene encoding α-glucosidase

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 432-438

  Minetoki, Toshitaka ^a   Nunokawa, Yataro ^a   Gomi, Katsuya ^b   Kitamoto, Katsuhiko ^b,d   Kumagai, Chieko ^a,b   Tamura, Gakuzo ^c  

^a Ozeki Corporation   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BREWING   (Japan)

^c Res Inst of Brewing Rsrc Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glucosidase; Aspergillus oryzae; Deletion analysis; Functional element

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; MALTOSE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TATA BOX;

ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029803609     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050153     Document Type: Article

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