Production of unmarked mutations in mycobacteria using site-specific recombination

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 261-268

  Malaga, Wladimir ^a   Perez, Esther ^a   Guilhot, Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Homologous recombination; Marker rescue; Mycobacterium; Resolvase; Unmarked mutation

Indexed keywords

RESOLVASE;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037469590     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00003-X     Document Type: Article

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