Improvement of culture conditions and evidence for nuclear transformation by homologous recombination in a red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 667-671

  Minoda, Ayumi ^a   Sakagami, Rei ^b   Yagisawa, Fumi ^a,c   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^c   Tanaka, Kan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 FOA resistance; Cultivation; Cyanidioschyzon merolae; Homologous recombination; Red algae; Transformation

Indexed keywords

5-FLUOROOROTIC ACID; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUOROOROTIC ACID; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OROTIC ACID; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PLANT DNA; URIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; URIDINE 5'-MONOPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RED ALGA;

ALGAE, RED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OROTIC ACID; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; EUKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 3142603413     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch087     Document Type: Article

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