Identification of a copper-inducible promoter for use in ectopic expression in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 935-944

  Gebhart, Dana ^a   Bahrami, Adam K ^a,b   Sil, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER SULFATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HISTOPLASMA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COPPER SULFATE; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME, FUNGAL; HISTOPLASMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS;

EID: 33745149380     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00028-06     Document Type: Article

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