Enhanced gene replacements in Ku80 disruption mutants of the dermatophyte, Trichophyton mentagrophytes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 208-217

  Yamada, Tsuyoshi ^a   Makimura, Koichi ^a   Hisajima, Tatsuya ^a,b   Ishihara, Yumiko ^a   Umeda, Yoshiko ^a   Abe, Shigeru ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO HEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dermatophytes; Ku80; Nonhomologous end joining; Targeted gene disruption

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AREA PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN KU80; NIT 2 PROTEIN; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHYTE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; WILD TYPE;

DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRICHOPHYTON;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMATACEAE;

EID: 68949205102     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01714.x     Document Type: Article

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