A plasmid shuttle vector bearing an rRNA promoter is extrachromosomally maintained in Crithidia fasciculata

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 252-258

  Biebinger, Susanne ^a   Clayton, Christine ^a  

^a Zentrum fur Molec Biol Heidelberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crithidia; episome; protomoter; rRNA, autonomous replication; transfection

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HYGROMYCIN; LUCIFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RNA PROCESSING; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA;

EID: 0030198498     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0072     Document Type: Article

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