Suicide plasmids containing promoterless reporter genes can simultaneously disrupt and create fusions to target genes of diverse bacteria

Gene

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-75

  Kalogeraki, Virginia S ^a   Winans, Stephen C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Campbell integration mutagenesis; Gene disruption; Gene fusions; gfp; lacZ; Operon fusions; phoA; Suicide plasmid

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SUICIDE GENE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE TARGETING; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 0030889554     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00778-0     Document Type: Article

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