Specialized transduction: An efficient method for generating marked and unmarked targeted gene disruptions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. bovis BCG and M. smegmatis

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3007-3017

  Bardarov, Stoyan ^a   Bardarov Jr , Svetoslav ^a   Pavelka Jr , Martin S ^a   Sambandamurthy, Vasan ^a   Larsen, Micharov ^a   Tufariello, JoAnn ^a   Chan, John ^a   Hatfull, Graham ^a   Jacobs Jr , William R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exchange; Homologous recombination; Mycobacteriophage

Indexed keywords

RESOLVASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE CLONE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHASMATODEA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0036774617     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-10-3007     Document Type: Article

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