Structural analysis of a Candida glabrata centromere and its functional homology to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae centromere

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 122-127

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

^a NIPPON ROCHE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Candida glabrata; Centromere; Plasmid stability; Yeast

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CENTROMERE; CHIMERA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031044294     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050185     Document Type: Article

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