Cloning and use of the WdURA5 gene as a hisG cassette selection marker for potentially disrupting multiple genes in Wangiella dermatitidis

Medical Mycology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 85-96

  Zheng, L ^a   Szaniszlo, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimorphic polymorphic fungi; hisG cassette; Transformation; URA5; Wangiella Exophiala

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; FLUOROOROTIC ACID; HYGROMYCIN B; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; DNA REPAIR; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPORATION; EXOPHIALA; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 0032934416     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-280X.1999.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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