Genomic organization and expression of 23 new genes from MATα locus of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 233-241

  Ren, Ping ^a   Roncaglia, Paola ^a   Springer, Deborah J ^b   Fan, Jinjiang ^a   Chaturvedi, Vishnu ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Genes; Locus; MAT ; RT PCR; Sequence; Transcription; Variety gattii

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, FUNGAL; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CRYPTOCOCCUS BACILLISPORUS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 9644291486     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.11.017     Document Type: Article

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