Stable nuclear transformation of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 572-579

  Apt, Kirk E ^a   Kroth Pancic, Peter G ^b   Grossman, Arthur R ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacillariophyta; Biolistic transformation; Phleomycin; Reporter gene; Selectable marker

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC G 418; BLEOMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HYGROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; NOURSEOTHRICIN; PHLEOMYCIN; PUROMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DIATOMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC MARKERS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FELIS CATUS; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM; STREPTOALLOTEICHUS HINDUSTANUS;

EID: 0029966913     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050264     Document Type: Article

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