Single-step conjugative cloning of bacterial gene fusions involved in microbe-host interactions

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 84-87

  Rainey, P B ^a   Heithoff D M ^b   Mahan, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugation; In vivo expression technology (IVET); Pseudomonas; Retrotransfer; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOME; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TECHNIQUE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0030720771     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050548     Document Type: Article

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