Characterization of plasmid burden and copy number in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for optimization of metabolic engineering applications

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-116

  Karim, Ashty S ^a   Curran, Kathleen A ^a   Alper, Hal S ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

2 micron; Centromeric; Copy number; Metabolic engineering; Plasmid burden; Plasmid load; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DNA REPLICATION; GROWTH RATE; INFORMATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLOIDY; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA REPLICATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLASMIDS; PLOIDIES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84872415347     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1567-1364.12016     Document Type: Article

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