Efficient electrotransformation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae with a mini-replicon derived from the Corynebacterium glutamicum plasmid pGA1

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 362-367

  Tauch, Andreas ^a   Kirchner, Oliver ^a   Löffler, Britta ^a   Götker, Susanne ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROSTAGLANDIN A; PROSTAGLANDIN A1;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLONING VECTOR; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ELECTROTRANSFORMATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICON; REPORTER GENE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; UNIDENTIFIED CLONING VECTOR; VECTORS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROSTAGLANDINS A; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0036835575     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3728-3     Document Type: Article

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