A broad-host-range F1p-FRT recombination system for site-specific excision of chromosomally-located DNA sequences: Application for isolation of unmarked Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants

Gene

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-86

  Hoang, Tung T ^a   Karkhoff Schweizer, Roxann R ^a   Kutchma, Alecksandr J ^a   Schweizer, Herbert P ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cassette; Gene replacement; Mutagenesis; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBENICILLIN; GENTAMICIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LYASE; RECOMBINASE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032575051     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00130-9     Document Type: Article

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