Tools for genetic engineering in the amino acid-producing bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 287-299

  Kirchner, Oliver ^a   Tauch, Andreas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloning and expression vectors; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Electrotransformation; Gene disruption and replacement; Self cloning

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; FERMENTATION;

GENOME SEQUENCES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BIOMASS FERMENTATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA TRANSFER; DNA VECTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; POSIBACTERIA; VECTORS;

EID: 0041429497     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1656(03)00148-2     Document Type: Article

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