The pKNOCK series of broad-host-range mobilizable suicide vectors for gene knockout and targeted DNA insertion into the chromosome of Gram-negative bacteria

BioTechniques

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 824-828

  Alexeyev, Mikhail F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; PLASMID VECTOR; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CLONING VECTOR; GENE INSERTION; GENE TARGETING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032914295     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/99265bm05     Document Type: Article

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