Genetic manipulation of the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis

Current Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-35

  Nosek, Jozef ^a   Adamíková, Ľubica ^a   Zemanová, Júlia ^a   Tomáška, Ľubomír ^a   Zufferey, Rachel ^b   Mamoun, Choukri Ben ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida parapsilosis; GAL1; Galactokinase; Orotidine 5 phosphate decarboxylase; URA3

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGALACTOSE; GALACTOKINASE; GENOMIC DNA; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PLASMID VECTOR;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MARKER GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YEAST CELL;

CANDIDA; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036942781     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0326-7     Document Type: Article

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