Development of a Genetic System for Geobacter sulfurreducens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3180-3187

  Coppi, Maddalena V ^a   Leang, Ching ^a   Sandler, Steven J ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; HIFD PROTEIN, HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLASMID; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CULTURE MEDIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTROPORATION; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC VECTORS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0035407383     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.3180-3187.2001     Document Type: Article

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