Yeast killer plasmid pGKL2: Molecular analysis of UCS5, a cytoplasmic promoter element essential for ORF5 gene function

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 286-294

  Schaffrath, Raffael ^a   Meinhardt, Friedhelm ^b   Meacock, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic promoter; Kluyveromyces lactis; Linear plasmids

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0029892122     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02174386     Document Type: Article

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