Use of a restriction endonuclease cytotoxicity assay to identify inducible GAL1 promoter variants with reduced basal activity

Gene

Volumn 363, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 183-192

  Lewis, L Kevin ^a   Lobachev, Kirill ^b,c   Westmoreland, James W ^b   Karthikeyan, G ^b,d   Williamson, Kelly M ^a   Jordan, Jennifer J ^b   Resnick, Michael A ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activator; Expression vector; Nuclease; Repressor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GAL PROTEIN; GALACTOSE; LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MIG1; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; TATA BOX; YEAST CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 28044432797     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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