Genetic transformation of Knufia petricola A95 - a model organism for biofilm-material interactions

AMB Express

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Noack Schönmann, Steffi ^a   Bus, Tanja ^b   Banasiak, Ronald ^a   Knabe, Nicole ^a   Broughton, William J ^a   Den Dulk Ras, H ^c   Hooykaas, Paul JJ ^c   Gorbushina, Anna A ^a,d  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancestor of opportunistic pathogens lichens; Black yeast; DNA transfer; Fungal cell walls; Hygromycin resistance; Protoplasts; Stress protective morphology; Sub aerial biofilms

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GLUCAN HYDROLASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; FUNGAL DNA; HYGROMYCIN B;

AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HYGROMYCIN B PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE GENE; HYPOCREA LIXII; KNUFIA PETRICOLA; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOPLAST; PROTOPLAST ISOLATION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID;

EID: 84949785183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21910855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13568-014-0080-5     Document Type: Article

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