Use of a modified Bacteroides-Prevotella shuttle vector to transfer a reconstructed β-1,4-D-endoglucanase gene into Bacteroides uniformis and Prevotella ruminicola B14

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 196-202

  Gardner, Richard G ^a   Russele, James B ^a,b   Wilson, David B ^a   Wang, Gui Rong ^c   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTEROIDES; BINDING SITE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PREVOTELLA; PROMOTER REGION; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES UNIFORMIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA RUMINICOLA; PREVOTELLA RUMINICOLA 23; THERMOBIFIDA FUSCA; THERMOMONOSPORA;

EID: 0030040206     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.1.196-202.1996     Document Type: Article

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