Low target site specificity of an IS6100-based mini-transposon, Tn1792, developed for transposon mutagenesis of antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 215-221

  Herron, Paul R ^a   Evans, Meirwyn C ^a   Dyson, Paul J ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insertion sequence; Streptomyces; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0033005294     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00608-9     Document Type: Article

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