Characterization of the rrnB operon of the plant pathogen Rhodococcus fascians and targeted integrations of exogenous genes at rrn loci

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1276-1282

  Pisabarro, Agustín ^a   Correia, António ^b   Martín, Juan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLANT; RHODOCOCCUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOCOCCUS FASCIANS;

EID: 0031965804     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1276-1282.1998     Document Type: Article

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