Isolation of a Candida glabrata centromere and its use in construction of plasmid vectors

Gene

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 105-108

  Kitada, Kunio ^a   Yamaguchi, Emi ^a   Arisawa, Mikio ^a  

^a NIPPON ROCHE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Centromeric sequence; Pathogenic fungi; Plasmid stability; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CENTROMERE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030579186     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00132-1     Document Type: Article

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