ORF7 of yeast plasmid pGKL2: Analysis of gene expression in vivo

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 190-192

  Schaffrath, Raffael ^a,c   Meinhardt, Friedhelm ^b   Meacock, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epitope tagging; In vivo detection; Yeast killer plasmid

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GENE PRODUCT; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KLUYVEROMYCES; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031050938     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050195     Document Type: Article

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