Zero background yeast reporter plasmids

Gene

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 53-61

  Melcher, Karsten ^a,b   Sharma, Balasubramanya ^a   Ding, Wei Vivianne ^b   Nolden, Mark ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

galactosidase; galactosidase; Carbon source responsive elements; CYC1; GAL4; Glucose repression; MEL1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALPHA-GALACTOSIDASE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOCHROMES C; GALACTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; LAC OPERON; MALTOSE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034682078     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00124-4     Document Type: Article

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