Developing genetic tools to exploit Chaetomium thermophilum for biochemical analyses of eukaryotic macromolecular assemblies

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kellner, Nikola ^a   Schwarz, Johannes ^a   Sturm, Miriam ^a   Fernandez Martinez, Javier ^b   Griesel, Sabine ^a   Zhang, Wenzhu ^b   Chait, Brian T ^b   Rout, Michael P ^b   Kück, Ulrich ^c   Hurt, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEOPORIN; TERBINAFINE;

CHAETOMIUM; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; DRUG EFFECTS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR PORE; PROTOPLAST; TRANSGENE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHAETOMIUM; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOT TEMPERATURE; NAPHTHALENES; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTOPLASTS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84958568675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20937     Document Type: Article

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