Tn917 transposon mutagenesis and marker rescue of interrupted genes of Streptococcus mutans

Methods in Cell Science

Volumn 20, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Cvitkovitch, Dennis G ^a,b   Gutierrez, Juan A ^a,c   Crowley, Paula J ^a   Wojciechowski, Laura ^a   Hillman, Jeffrey D ^a   Bleiweis, Arnold S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMPICILLIN; ARGININE; BACTERIOCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUTACIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLONING; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PH; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0032449699     PISSN: 13815741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009711609646     Document Type: Article

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