Generation of unmarked directed mutations in mycobacteria, using sucrose counter-selectable suicide vectors

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 919-925

  Pelicic, Vladimir ^a   Reyrat, Jean Marc ^a   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALLELES; GENETIC VECTORS; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; SUCROSE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 0029888153     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02533.x     Document Type: Review

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