Utilisation of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the generation and isolation of non-lethal ricin A chain variants

Yeast

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1287-1297

  Allen, Stuart C ^a   Byron, Adam ^a,c   Lord, J Michael ^a   Davey, John ^a   Roberts, Lynne M ^a   Ladds, Graham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gap repair; Mutation; Ricin A chain; Yeast

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; RICIN A;

ARTICLE; CELL BUDDING; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RIBOSOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; YEAST CELL;

DNA, FUNGAL; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 31144446294     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1330     Document Type: Article

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