Further development of the cassette-based pYC plasmid system by incorporation of the dominant hph, nat and AUR1-C gene markers and the lacZ reporter system

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-327

  Hansen, Jørgen ^a,c   Felding, Troels ^a   Johannesen, Pia Francke ^a,d   Piskur, Jure ^b   Christensen, Christina Lund ^a   Olesen, Kjeld ^a  

^a CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Proalis A S   (Denmark)

^d NOVOZYMES A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aureobasidin A; Dominant selection; Hygromycin B; lacZ; Nourseothricin; Saccharomyces carlsbergensis; Saccharomyces kluyveri; Saccharomyces pastorianus

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HYGROMYCIN B PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; INOSITOL PHOSPHOCERAMIDE SYNTHASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NOURSEOTHRICIN N ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PLASMID VECTOR; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREWING; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; LACZ GENE; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CARLSBERGENSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; SACCHAROMYCES PASTORIANUS;

EID: 0345118979     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1356(03)00178-8     Document Type: Article

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