Living colors in the gray mold pathogen Botrytis cinerea: Codon-optimized genes encoding green fluorescent protein and mCherry, which exhibit bright fluorescence

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2887-2897

  Leroch, Michaela ^a   Mernke, Dennis ^a   Koppenhoefer, Dieter ^a   Schneider, Prisca ^a   Mosbach, Andreas ^a   Doehlemann, Gunther ^b   Hahn, Matthias ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CODON OPTIMIZATION; CODON USAGE; EFFLUX TRANSPORTER; ENCODING GENES; ENHANCED GFP; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; GC CONTENTS; GENES ENCODING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MODERN BIOLOGY; MOLD FUNGI; MRNA LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RED FLUORESCENCE; TOXIC COMPOUNDS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOLDS; OPTIMIZATION;

GENE ENCODING;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

COLOR; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; PATHOGEN; PROTEIN; SPORE; TOXIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STAINING;

BOTRYTIS; CODON; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAINING AND LABELING;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI;

EID: 79955603836     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02644-10     Document Type: Article

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