Sequential gene disruption in candida albicans by FLP-mediated site-specific recombination

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 547-556

  Morschhäuser, Joachim ^a   Michel, Sonja ^a   Staib, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; P-GLYCOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0032903245     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01393.x     Document Type: Article

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