Blue/white screening of recombinant plasmids in Gram-positive bacteria by interruption of alkaline phosphatase gene (phoZ) expression

Gene

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 91-99

  Chaffin, D O ^a   Rubens, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloning; cpsE; DNA; Selection; Streptococci; Transformation; Vectors; X p

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CLONING VECTOR; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA FAECALIS; FELIS CATUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTINE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 0032575881     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00396-5     Document Type: Article

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