Functional analysis of yeast essential genes using a promoter-substitution cassette and the tetracycline-regulatable dual expression system

Yeast

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1127-1138

  Bellí, Gemma ^a   Garí, Eloi ^a   Aldea, Martí ^a   Herrero, Enrique ^a  

^a Universitat de Lleida Facultat de Medicina Sabadell   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conditional gene expression; Essential genes; Promoter substitution cassette; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Tetracycline regulatable promoter

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032531024     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0061(19980915)14:12<1127::aid-yea300>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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