Construction of shuttle vectors for genetic manipulation and molecular analysis of Mycobacteria

Gene

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-44

  Jain, Shruti ^a   Kaushal, Deepak ^a   DasGupta, Sujoy K ^a,b   Tyagi, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Fusion protein; Gene expression; Genetic complementation; Genomic library; Promoter

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

BCG VACCINE; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0030917922     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00746-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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