Use of a transposon-encoded site-specific resolution system for construction of large and defined deletion mutations in bacterial chromosome

Gene

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-41

  Tsuda, Masataka ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genome engineering; Iron acquisition; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Pyoverdin; Tn1722; TnpR res system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOME; DELETION MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSON;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RECOMBINASES; TRANSPOSASES; TRANSPOSON RESOLVASES;

EID: 0032545712     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00601-X     Document Type: Article

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