A family of removable cassettes designed to obtain antibiotic-resistance-free genomic modifications of Escherichia coli and other bacteria

Gene

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 255-264

  Palmeros, Beatríz ^a   Wild, Jadwiga ^b   Szybalski, Waclaw ^b   Le Borgne, Sylvie ^a   Hernández Chávez, Georgina ^a   Gosset, Guillermo ^a   Valle, Fernando ^c   Bolivar, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cre; loxP; Recombinant DNA tools; Site specific recombination; Unmarked strains

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE P1; BACTERIUM; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONSTRUCT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TECHNIQUE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; INTEGRASES; KANAMYCIN; KANAMYCIN KINASE; LAC OPERON; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALE;

EID: 0034682030     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00075-5     Document Type: Article

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