Conjugative transfer of the Escherichia coli-Clostridium perfringens shuttle vector pJIR1457 to Clostridium botulinum type A strains

Plasmid

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 233-237

  Bradshaw, Marite ^a   Goodnough, Michael C ^a   Johnson, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; RECOMBINANT GENE; SHUTTLE VECTOR; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031734489     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1366     Document Type: Article

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