Development and use of a conditional antisense mutagenesis system in mycobacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 151-157

  Parish, Tanya ^a   Stoker, Neil G ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetamidase; Antisense; Histidine; Mycobacterium; Vector

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; DNA FRAGMENT; HISTIDINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ACETAMIDES; AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 0030884810     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00317-0     Document Type: Article

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