An improved Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for the functional genetic analysis of Penicillium marneffei

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1066-1074

  Kummasook, Aksarakorn ^a   Cooper Jr , Chester R ^b   Vanittanakom, Nongnuch ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^b YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transformation; dimorphic fungus; fungal morphogenesis; Penicillium marneffei; random insertional mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM MEDIATED TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM; ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CONIDIUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; PENICILLIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI;

EID: 77958147226     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693781003801219     Document Type: Article

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