A counterselection for the tryptophan pathway in yeast: 5-Fluoroanthranilic acid resistance

Yeast

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 553-560

  Toyn, Jeremy H ^a   Gunyuzlu, Paul ^a   White, W Hunter ^a   Thompson, Lorin A ^a   Hollis, Gregory F ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimetabolism; Counterselection; Fluoroanthranilic acid; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; TRP1; Tryptophan; Yeast

Indexed keywords

5 FLUOROANTHRANILIC ACID; ANTHRANILIC ACID; ANTHRANILIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ANTIMETABOLITE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME METABOLISM; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SHUTTLE VECTOR; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; YEAST;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; ANTHRANILATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; ANTHRANILATE SYNTHASE; ANTHRANILIC ACIDS; CELL DIVISION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; INDOLE-3-GLYCEROL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN SYNTHASE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034035729     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(200004)16:6<553::AID-YEA554>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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