Molecular tools for carotenogenesis analysis in the zygomycete mucor circinelloides

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 898, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-107

  Torres Martínez, Santiago ^a   Ruiz Vázquez, Rosa M ^a   Garre, Victoriano ^a   López García, Sergio ^a   Navarro, Eusebio ^a   Vila, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gene replacement; Gene silencing; Immunoprecipitation; Mucor; RNAi; Transformation; Ubiquitylation

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; FUNGAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUCOR; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTOPLAST; RNA PROBE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAROTENOIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUCOR; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTOPLASTS; RNA PROBES; RNA, FUNGAL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES;

EID: 84864119489     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-918-1_5     Document Type: Article

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