Budding yeast as a screening tool for discovery of nucleoside analogs for use in HSV-1 TK suicide-gene therapy

BioTechniques

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 772-777

  Wera, S ^b   Degreve B ^a   Balzarini, J ^a   De Clercq, E ^a   Thevelein, J M ^b   Neyts, Johan ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 (2 BROMOVINYL) 2' DEOXYURIDINE; ACICLOVIR; GANCICLOVIR; LOBUCAVIR; PENCICLOVIR; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYMINE ARABINOSIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CYTOSTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUICIDE GENE; YEAST;

ARA; HERPES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0344994532     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/99274st08     Document Type: Article

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