Establishing a versatile Golden Gate cloning system for genetic engineering in fungi

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Terfrüchte, Marius ^a   Joehnk, Bastian ^b   Fajardo Somera, Rosa ^c   Braus, Gerhard H ^b   Riquelme, Meritxell ^c   Schipper, Kerstin ^a   Feldbrügge, Michael ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Filamentous fungi; Golden Gate cloning; Homologous recombination; Resistance marker recycling

Indexed keywords

TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GOLDEN GATE CLONING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; USTILAGO MAYDIS; ZEA MAYS;

FILAMENTOUS FUNGI; GOLDEN GATE CLONING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; RESISTANCE-MARKER RECYCLING;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTATION; USTILAGO;

EID: 84890789049     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2013.10.012     Document Type: Article

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