A novel method used to delete a new Aspergillus fumigatus ABC transporter-encoding gene

Current Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 268-274

  Langfelder, Kim ^a   Gattung, Stephanie ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Aspergillus fumigatus; Gene deletion

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MARKER GENE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; COSMIDS; DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI;

EID: 0036939338     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0313-z     Document Type: Article

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