Establishment of a Cre/loxP recombination system for N-terminal epitope tagging of genes in Tetrahymena

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Busch, Clara Jana Lui ^a   Vogt, Alexander ^a   Mochizuki, Kazufumi ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; EPITOPE; PROTOZOAL DNA; INTEGRASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; LOXP SITE; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; TETRAHYMENA;

MYXOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; EPITOPES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TETRAHYMENA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77954419849     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-191     Document Type: Article

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