General vectors for archaeal hyperthermophiles: Strategies based on a mobile intron and a plasmid

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 93-104

  Aagaard, Claus ^a   Leviev, Ilia ^a   Aravalli, Rajagopal N ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^b   Prieur, Daniel ^c   Garrett, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Archaeal intron; I DmoI; Selective marker; Shuttle vector

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPRESSION VECTOR; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SHUTTLE VECTOR; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

EID: 0029934832     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-6445(96)00004-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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