TnaRaOut, a transposon-based approach to identify and characterize essential bacterial genes

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 740-745

  Judson, Nicholas ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera; Essential genes; Functional genomics; Transposon mutagenesis; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DRUG TARGETING; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ARABINOSE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0033910576     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/77305     Document Type: Article

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