A general system for generating unlabelled gene replacements in bacterial chromosomes

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 253, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 217-224

  Leenhouts, K ^a,b   Buist, G ^a   Bolhuis, A ^a   Ten Berge, A ^a   Kiel, J ^a   Mierau, I ^a   Dabrowska, Magdalena ^a   Venema, G ^a   Kok, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conditional replication; Gene replacement; lacZ reporter; Mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HELICASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA INTEGRATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; RECOMBINANT GENE; REPORTER GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029908131     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050315     Document Type: Article

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