Intron requirement for AFP gene expression in Trichoderma viride

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3093-3097

  Xu, Jun ^a   Gong, Zhen Zhen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS GIGANTEUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS GIGANTEUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE; VECTORS;

EID: 0344012046     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26514-0     Document Type: Article

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