Autonomously replicating plasmids carrying the AMA1 region in Penicillium chrysogenum

Current Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 482-489

  Fierro, Francisco ^a   Kosalková, Katarina ^a   Gutiérrez, Santiago ^a   Martín, Juan F ^a  

^a Institute of Biotechnology INBIOTEC Parque Científico de León   (Spain)

Author keywords

Filamentous fungi; Origins of replication; Plasmid multimers; Stability

Indexed keywords

ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PLASMID; REPLICON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOTYPE; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPLICON; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030117788     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02221518     Document Type: Article

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