The art and design of genetic screens: Escherichia coli

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 419-431

  Shuman, Howard A ^a   Silhavy, Thomas J ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; COLOR; DNA METABOLISM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LACTOSE OPERON; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC SCREENING; LAC OPERON; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0038441347     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1087     Document Type: Review

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