Genetic system for reversible integration of DNA constructs and lacZ gene fusions into the Escherichia coli chromosome

Plasmid

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-23

  Platt, Ratree ^a   Drescher, Christopher ^b   Park, Sei Kyoung ^a   Phillips, Gregory J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PLASMID DNA; PLASMID VECTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHROMOSOME; CLONING; DNA INTEGRATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUSION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033968473     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1999.1433     Document Type: Article

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