Use of Tn917 to generate insertion mutations in the group A streptococcus

Gene

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 213-217

  Eichenbaum, Zehava ^a   Scott, June R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial genetics; Bacterial pathogenesis; Mutagenesis; Transcriptional fusion; Transposition

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICON; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; TRANSPOSON;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KANAMYCIN KINASE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE DELETION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0031029792     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00705-6     Document Type: Article

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