Plant-adapted green fluorescent protein is a versatile vital reporter for gene expression, protein localization and mitosis in the filamentous fungus, Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 121-130

  Fernández Ábalos, José Manuel ^a   Fox, Helen ^b   Pitt, Chris ^b   Wells, Brian ^b   Doonan, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPORTER GENE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUOROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOSIS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ALCA; ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0031983578     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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