A new Thermus-Escherichia coli shuttle integration vector system

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 4811-4814

  Tamakoshi, Masatada ^a   Uchida, Manabu ^b   Tanabe, Kazuhiro ^b   Fukuyama, Shiro ^b   Yamagishi, Akihiko ^a   Oshima, Tairo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMID VECTOR; PYRIMIDINE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0030811575     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.15.4811-4814.1997     Document Type: Article

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