Genetic manipulation of Kluyveromyces lactis linear DNA plasmids: Gene targeting and plasmid shuffles

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 201-210

  Schaffrath, Raffael ^a   Meinhardt, Friedhelm ^b   Meacock, Peter A ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene disruption; Kluyveromyces lactis; Linear DNA plasmid; Plasmid shuffle; Upstream conserved sequence promoter; Yeast

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; YEAST CELL;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 0032876986     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00338-9     Document Type: Article

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