Performance of a tetracycline-responsive transactivator system for regulating transgenes in the oomycete Phytophthora infestans

Current Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 297-307

  Judelson, Howard S ^a   Narayan, Reena ^a   Ah Fong, Audrey M V ^a   Tani, Shuji ^a   Kim, Kyoung Su ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Inducible promoter; Oomycete transformation; Tet on system

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DOXYCYCLINE; NPT II PROTEIN; PROTEIN VP16; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSGENE;

GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS;

EID: 34247268289     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-007-0125-2     Document Type: Article

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