Reproducible genetic transformation system for two dermatophytes, Microsporum canis and Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Medical Mycology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 533-544

  Yamada, Tsuyoshi ^a   Makimura, Koichi ^a   Uchida, Katsuhisa ^a   Yamaguchi, Hideyo ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dermathopyte; Genetic transformation; Green flourescent protein; Hygromycin B resistance

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; HYGROMYCIN B; MACROGOL; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DERMATOPHYTE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MICROSPORUM CANIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOPLAST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MICROSPORUM; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRICHOPHYTON;

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; FUNGI; MICROSPORUM CANIS;

EID: 28244497722     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780500057619     Document Type: Article

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