Integration-proficient plasmids for Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Site- specific integration and use for engineering of reporter and expression strains

Plasmid

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-72

  Hoang, Tung T ^a   Kutchma, Alecks J ^a,b   Becher, Anna ^a   Schweizer, Herbert P ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Myriad Genetic Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Flp recombinase; GFP; Integration; P. aeruginosa; Phage CTX; galactosidase

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA POLYMERASE; INTEGRASE; PLASMID DNA; PLASMID VECTOR; RECOMBINASE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033968474     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1999.1441     Document Type: Article

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