Linear DNA plasmid pPK2 of Pichia kluyveri: Distinction between cytoplasmic and mitochondrial linear plasmids in yeasts

Yeast

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 781-791

  Blaisonneau, Joël ^a   Nosek, Jozef ^b   Fukuhara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

DNA termini; Linear DNA; Mitochondria; Pichia kluyveri; Plasmid; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; FUNGAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA; PICHIA KLUYVERI; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ETHIDIUM; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PICHIA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

FUNGI; PICHIA; PICHIA HEEDII; PICHIA KLUYVERI;

EID: 0033618090     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19990630)15:9<781::AID-YEA420>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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