Use of a transposon (Tndif) to obtain suppressing and nonsuppressing insertions of the dif resolvase site of Escherichia coli

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1162-1171

  Kuempel, Peter ^a   Høgaard, Andrias ^a   Nielsen, Mette ^a   Nagappan, Olagappan ^a   Tecklenburg, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

chromosome; dif; E. coli; resolvase; terminus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0030007428     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.9.1162     Document Type: Article

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