Heat shock-inducible expression vectors for use in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 883-887

  Fujita, Yasuko ^a,b   Tohda, Hideki ^b   Giga Hama, Yuko ^b   Takegawa, Kaoru ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fission yeast; Foreign gene expression; Heat shock protein; Inducible vector

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CADMIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 16; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CADMIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATORS; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 33747331178     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00093.x     Document Type: Article

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