Cassettes for the PCR-mediated construction of regulatable alleles in Candida albicans

Yeast

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 429-436

  Gerami Nejad, Maryam ^a   Hausauer, Danielle ^a   McClellan, Mark ^a   Berman, Judith ^a   Gale, Cheryl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Epitope tagging; GAL1 promoter; Green fluorescent protein; MET3 promoter; PCK1 promoter; Polymerase chain reaction; Regulatable expression

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE;

ALLELES; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 1942539981     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1080     Document Type: Article

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