Stable transformants of the azaphilone pigment-producing Monascus purpureus obtained by protoplast transformation and Agrobacterium-mediated DNA transfer

Current Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 447-452

  Campoy, Sonia ^b   Pérez, Flor ^b   Martín, Juan F ^a,b   Gutiérrez, Santiago ^a,b   Liras, Paloma ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b Institute of Biotechnology INBIOTEC Parque Científico de León   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated DNA transfer; Azaphilones; Transformation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHROMOSOME; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA TRANSFER; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOSIS; MONASCUS PURPUREUS; MONASCUS RUBER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOPLAST; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RHIZOBIUM; SPOROGENESIS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MONASCUS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PROTOPLASTS; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; ASCOMYCOTA; MONASCUS; MONASCUS PURPUREUS; MONASCUS RUBER;

EID: 0141624934     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0417-0     Document Type: Article

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