Generation of large libraries of random mutants in Bacillus subtills by PCR-based plasmid multimerization

BioTechniques

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 304-310

  Shafikhani, Sasha ^a   Siegel, Ronald A ^b   Ferrari, Eugenio ^a   Schellenberger, Volker ^a  

^a GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MANGANESE CHLORIDE; SUBTILISIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BASE MISPAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERIZATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030737949     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/97232rr01     Document Type: Article

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