A new versatile system for rapid control of gene expression in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Yeast

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 425-434

  Zilio, Nicola ^a   Wehrkamp Richter, Sophie ^a   Boddy, Michael Nicholas ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fission yeast; Gene expression; Inducible promoter; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEIOSIS; NMT1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NSE6 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOP1 GENE; URG1 GENE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; MEIOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84867654661     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.2920     Document Type: Article

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