Use of the ARG7 gene as an insertional mutagen to clone PHON 24, a gene required for derepressible neutral phosphatase activity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 258, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 123-132

  Adam, M ^a   Loppes, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Gene tagging; Insertional mutagenesis; Phosphatase

Indexed keywords

ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE; MESSENGER RNA; MUTAGENIC AGENT; PHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PLASMIDS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031944432     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050714     Document Type: Article

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