Inactivation of ku80 in the mushroom-forming fungus Schizophyllum commune increases the relative incidence of homologous recombination

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-95

  De Jong, Jan F ^a   Ohm, Robin A ^a   De Bekker, Charissa ^a   Wösten, Han A B ^a   Lugones, Luis G ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

basidiomycete; gene deletion; homologous integration; ku80; Schizophyllum commune; transformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; JMJ3 GENE; KU80 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRI2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SC15 GENE; SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE;

ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHYLLUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE;

EID: 77955241103     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02052.x     Document Type: Article

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