Successful expression of heterologous egfp gene in the mitochondria of a photosynthetic eukaryote Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Mitochondrion

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 716-721

  Hu, Zhangli ^a   Zhao, Zhonglin ^a   Wu, Zhihua ^a   Fan, Zhun ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Wu, Jinxia ^a   Li, Jiancheng ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Egfp; Exogenous gene expression; Mitochondrial transformation

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; COB GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EGFP GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79961207349     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: 18728278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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