Liposome-mediated DNA uptake and transient expression in Thermotoga

Extremophiles

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-60

  Yu, Jae Sung ^a,b   Vargas, Madeline ^a,c   Mityas, Christina ^a   Noll, Kenneth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperthermophile; Plasmid; Thermotoga; Transformation; Vector

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; KANAMYCIN; KANAMYCIN NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOSOME; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; HEAT; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC STRAIGHT, CURVED, AND HELICAL RODS; HEAT; KANAMYCIN; LIPOSOMES; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0035259957     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920000173     Document Type: Article

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