A broad-host-range vector of incompatibility group Q can work as a plasmid vector in Neisseria meningitidis: A new genetical tool

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 229-236

  Takahashi, Hideyuki ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complementation; IncQ plasmid; Restriction modification systems; Triparental conjugation

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; MARKER; PLASMID VECTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0036150418     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-1-229     Document Type: Article

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