Curing Saccharomyces cerevisiae of the 2 micron plasmid by targeted DNA damage

Yeast

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 847-852

  Tsalik, Ephraim L ^a   Gartenberg, Marc R ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

2 micron plasmid; Curing; DNA damage; F1p; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARBOXY-LYASES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032581214     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19980630)14:9<847::AID-YEA285>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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