Expression of a chromosomally integrated, single-copy GFP gene in Candida albicans, and its use as a reporter of gene regulation

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 412-420

  Morschhauser J ^a   Michel, S ^a   Hacker, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Green fluorescent protein; Virulence gene expression

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMATOPHORE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT GENE; REPORTER GENE;

ACTINS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031952147     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050665     Document Type: Article

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