Plasmids for in vivo construction of integrative Candida albicans vectors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Yeast

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 933-939

  Vieira, Neide ^a   Pereira, Filipa ^a   Casal, Margarida ^a   Brown, Alistair J P ^b   Paiva, Sandra ^a   Johansson, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Gap repair; in vivo; Plasmid integration; Toxic genes; Yeast

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; JEN2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FUNGAL GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78149331024     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1800     Document Type: Article

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