Efficient library construction with a TA vector and its application to cloning of the phytoene synthase gene from the cyanobacterium spirulina platensis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 289-291

  Kawata, Yoshikazu ^a   Yano, Shin Ichi ^a   Kojima, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA POLYMERASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; SYNTHETASE; BACTERIAL DNA; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; PRIMER DNA; TRANSFERASE;

CLONING VECTOR; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MODIFICATION; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

SPIRULINA PLATENSIS;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0031595826     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900380     Document Type: Review

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