α-tubulin minichromosome promoters in the stichotrichous ciliate Stylonychia lemnae

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 28-36

  Skovorodkin, Ilya ^a,c   Pimenov, Alexander ^a,c   Raykhel, Irina ^a,c   Schimanski, Bernd ^a,b   Ammermann, Dieter ^a   Günzl, Arthur ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; MITOGENIC AGENT; PROTOZOAL DNA; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CHROMOSOME; CILIATE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; CILIOPHORA; CLONE CELLS; CONCANAVALIN A; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MICROINJECTIONS; MITOGENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUBULIN; UP-REGULATION;

CILIOPHORA; PROTISTA; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

EID: 33846425760     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00003-06     Document Type: Article

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