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A new rapid and efficient system with dominant selection developed to inactivate and conditionally express genes in Candida albicans.
Current genetics - 1 Feb 2016
Lai Wei-Chung, Sun Hsiao-Fang Sunny, Lin Pei-Hsuan, Ho Lin Ho Lin, Shieh Jia-Ching
Abstract excerpt
Candida albicans is an important human fungal pathogen but its study has been hampered for being a natural diploid that lacks a complete sexual cycle. Gene knock-out and essential gene repression are used to study gene function in C. albicans. To effectively study essential genes in wild-type C. albicans, we took advantage of the compatible effects of the antibiotics hygromycin B and nourseothricin, the...
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