Construction and application of mycobacterial reporter transposons

Gene

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-75

  MacHowski, Edith E ^a   McAdam, Ruth A ^b   Derbyshire, Keith M ^c   Mizrahi, Valerie ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

aph; IS1096; lacZ; Promoter; Transcriptional fusion; Translational fusion

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC MARKERS; KANAMYCIN KINASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHENOTYPE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034713825     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00238-9     Document Type: Article

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