Six new amino acid-auxotrophic markers for targeted gene integration and disruption in fission yeast

Current Genetics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-105

  Ma, Yan ^a   Sugiura, Reiko ^b   Saito, Mariko ^a   Koike, Atsushi ^a   Sio, Susie Ong ^d   Fujita, Yasuko ^c   Takegawa, Kaoru ^c   Kuno, Takayoshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Auxotrophic mutant; Genetic marker; Pombe

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; CYSTEINE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LYSINE; METHIONINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SCREENING; MARKER GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; MUTATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 34547614482     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-007-0142-1     Document Type: Article

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