Generation of astaxanthin mutants in xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous using a double recombination method based on hygromycin resistance

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 898, Issue , 2012, Pages 219-234

  Niklitschek, Mauricio ^a   Baeza, Marcelo ^a   Fernández Lobato, María ^b   Cifuentes, Víctor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astaxanthin; Hygromycin B; Recombination; Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; ELONGATION FACTOR 1; FUNGAL DNA; HYGROMYCIN B; XANTHOPHYLL;

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, FUNGAL; HYGROMYCIN B; MUTATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; XANTHOPHYLLS;

XANTHOPHYLLOMYCES DENDRORHOUS;

EID: 84864137285     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-918-1_15     Document Type: Article

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