Stable low-copy-number Staphylococcus aureus shuttle vectors

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 785-794

  Grkovic, Steve ^a   Brown, Melissa H ^a   Hardie, Kate M ^a   Firth, Neville ^a   Skurray, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037348664     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25951-0     Document Type: Review

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