Construction and use of derivatives of transposon Tn4001 that function in Mycoplasma pulmonis and Mycoplasma arthritidis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 4343-4347

  Dybvig, Kevin ^a   French, C Todd ^a   Voelker, LeRoy L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENTAMICINS; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0033912655     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.15.4343-4347.2000     Document Type: Article

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