Color-selectable and site-specific integrative transformation system for gene expression studies in the dematiaceous fungus Wangiella (Exophiala) dermatitidis

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 241-247

  Ye, X ^a   Feng, B ^a   Szaniszlo, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Exophiala; Gene expression; Polyketide synthase; Transformation; Wangiella

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; POLYKETIDE; SYNTHETASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALBINISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COLOR; DNA INTEGRATION; EXOPHIALA; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXOPHIALA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 0032827988     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050496     Document Type: Article

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