Centromeric DNA Facilitates Nonconventional Yeast Genetic Engineering

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1545-1553

  Cao, Mingfeng ^a,b   Gao, Meirong ^a,b   Lopez Garcia, Carmen Lorena ^a,c   Wu, Yutong ^a   Seetharam, Arun Somwarpet ^c   Severin, Andrew Josef ^c   Shao, Zengyi ^a,b,c,d  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^c 1140L Biorenewables Research Laboratory   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEN epigeneticity; centromeres; CRISPR Cas9; episomal plasmids; nonconventional yeasts; Scheffersomyces stipitis

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ASCOMYCETES; CENTROMERE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ASCOMYCOTA; CENTROMERE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; DNA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 85027466630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00046     Document Type: Article

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