Targeted and random bacterial gene disruption using a group II intron (targetron) vector containing a retrotransposition-activated selectable marker

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1656-1664

  Zhong, Jin ^a   Karberg, Michael ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINASE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA PACKAGING; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA VECTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; INTRON; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTRONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037444087     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg248     Document Type: Review

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