A conditional suicide system for Saccharomyces cerevisiae relying on the intracellular production of the Serratia marcescens nuclease

Yeast

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 203-212

  Balan, Andrea ^a   Schenberg, Ana Clara G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conditional suicide; Nuclease; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Serratia marcescens

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSE; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL KILLING; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE TRANSFER; HOST CELL; MICROCOSM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST CELL;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; COMET ASSAY; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENES, TRANSGENIC, SUICIDE; GLUCOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 14544291972     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1203     Document Type: Article

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