Construction of Candida albicans Tet-on tagging vectors with a Ura-blaster cassette

Yeast

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-263

  Lai, Wei Chung ^a,b   Tseng, Tzu Ling ^b   Jian, Ting ^b   Lee, Tai Lin ^c   Cheng, Chun Wen ^b   Shieh, Jia Ching ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; GFP fusion protein; Tet on tagging vector; Ura blaster cassette

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE; EPITOPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA, FUNGAL; DOXYCYCLINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 79952058764     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1833     Document Type: Article

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