Limitations on the recombinant plasmid selection by lac+/lac− colony phenotype detection

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-40

  Gutkina, Nadezhda I ^a   Varlakhanova, Natalia V ^a   Lysova, Marina V ^a   Kovalenko, Sergei P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

brca1; Escherichia coli; Lac+ Lac selection; LacZ ; Recombinant plasmid; Shine Dalgarno sequence; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; GUANINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN LACZALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXON; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BRCA1; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036399457     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02392-6     Document Type: Article

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