Cloning the Schizosaccharomyces pombe lys2+ gene and construction of new molecular genetic tools

Current Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 414-420

  Hoffman, Richard L ^a   Hoffman, Charles S ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deletion; Fission yeast; his7+; lys2+; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Selectable marker

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN LYS2; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLONING VECTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ALLELES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HISTIDINE; LYSINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 33646690524     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0065-2     Document Type: Article

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