Control of gag-pol gene expression in the Candida albicans retrotransposon Tca2

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Forbes, Elaine M ^a,b   Nieduszynska, Siân R ^a   Brunton, Fiona K ^a,c   Gibson, Joanne ^a   Anne, L Anne ^a   Stansfield, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GAG PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; POL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

3' FLANKING REGION; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CODON; CODON, TERMINATOR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FUSION PROTEINS, GAG-POL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, GAG; GENES, POL; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LAC OPERON; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 38049112901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-8-94     Document Type: Article

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