Versatile EGFP reporter plasmids for cellular localization of recombinant gene products in filamentous fungi

Current Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-61

  Pöggler, Stefanie ^a   Masloff, Sandra ^a   Hoff, Birgit ^a   Mayrhofer, Severine ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Filamentous fungi; GFP; Protein localization; Protein secretion

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANINE; HYGROMYCIN B; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RNA; TYROSINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEPHALOSPORIUM ACREMONIUM; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA VECTOR; ENHANCER REGION; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INHERITANCE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SORDARIALES; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM; ANIMALIA; ASCOMYCOTA; CEPHALOSPORIUM; FUNGI; MACROSPORA; SORDARIA; SORDARIA MACROSPORA; SORDARIALES;

EID: 0037591619     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0370-y     Document Type: Article

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