New mobilizable vectors suitable for gene replacement in gram-negative bacteria and their use in mapping of the 3' end of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris gum operon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 278-282

  Katzen, Federico ^a   Becker, Anke ^b   Ielmini, M Verónica ^a   Oddo, Cristian G ^a   Ielpi, Luis ^a,c  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FUNDACIÓN INSTITUTO LELOIR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XANTHAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONING VECTOR; COLORIMETRY; CROSSING OVER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MAPPING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 0032908083     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.1.278-282.1999     Document Type: Article

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