Targets for pSAM2 integrase-mediated site-specific integration in the Mycobacterium smegmatis chromosome

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3375-3380

  Seoane, Asunción ^a   Navas, Jesús ^a   García Lobo, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Integrase; Mycobacterium smegmatis; Plasmid pSAM2; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; INTEGRASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 0030862373     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-10-3375     Document Type: Article

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