Assessment of the utilization of the antisense RNA strategy to identify essential genes in heterologous bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-176

  Wang, Bing ^a   Kuramitsu, Howard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Escherichia coli; Essential gene; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VECTORS;

EID: 0037470944     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00128-9     Document Type: Article

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