Construction of Hermes shuttle vectors: A versatile system useful for genetic complementation of transformable and non-transformable Neisseria mutants

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 558-569

  Kupsch, Eva Marià ^a,b   Aubel, Dominique ^a,b,c,d   Gibbs, Carol P ^a,c   Kahrs, Andreas F ^a,d   Rudel, Thomas ^a   Meyer, Thomas F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b DOW EUROPE GMBH   (Switzerland)

^c BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d EVOTEC BioSystems GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Generalized mutagenesis; Homologous recombination; Natural transformation competence; Plasmid vector

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; REC A RECOMBINASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0029865459     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050109     Document Type: Article

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