Multiplex genetic engineering exploiting pyrimidine salvage pathway-based self-encoded selectable markers
Lukas Birštonas, Alex Dallemulle, Manuel S. López‐Berges, Ilse Denise Jacobsen, Martin Offterdinger, Beate Abt, Maria Straßburger, Ingo Bauer, Oliver Schmidt, Bettina Sarg, Herbert H. Lindner, Hubertus Haas, Fabio Gsaller
This paper introduces a novel genetic engineering method using endogenous pyrimidine salvage pathway genes as selectable markers for targeted DNA insertion in fungal pathogens.
mBio · Apr 6, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics