Cloning and targeted disruption of two polygalacturonase genes in Penicillium olsonii

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 293-299

  Wagner, Florian ^a   Kusserow, Heike ^a,b   Schäfer, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene disruption; Penicillium olsonii; Polygalacturonase; Polygalacturonase induction

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; CARBON; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL ENZYME; FUNGAL RNA; GLUCOSE; ISOENZYME; MONOSACCHARIDE; POLYGALACTURONASE; RHAMNOSE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE SEQUENCE; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM OLSONII; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ISOENZYMES; MUTAGENESIS; PENICILLIUM; POLYGALACTURONASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

FUNGI; PENICILLIUM OLSONII;

EID: 0034607628     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00160-9     Document Type: Article

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