Mild RIP - An alternative method for in vivo mutagenesis of the albino-3 gene in Neurospora crassa

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 353-361

  Barbato, Christian ^a   Calissano, Mattia ^a   Pickford, Annette ^a   Romano, Nicoletta ^a   Sandmann, Gerhard ^b   Macino, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Biosynthesis Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotenoid biosynthesis; Geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase; Neurospora crassa; Prenyltransferase; Repeat induced point mutation

Indexed keywords

FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE;

ALBINISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; METHODOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GERANYLGERANYL-DIPHOSPHATE GERANYLGERANYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0029832715     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050238     Document Type: Article

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