A Potential Food-Grade Cloning Vector for Streptococcus thermophilus that Uses Cadmium Resistance as the Selectable Marker

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5767-5771

  Wong, Wing Yee ^a   Su, Ping ^a,b   Allison, Gwen E ^b   Liu, Chun Qiang ^a   Dunn, Noel W ^a  

^a DSM FOOD SPECIALTIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CLONING; DNA; VECTORS;

CADMIUM RESISTANCE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CADMIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE DELETION; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGE DISPLAY; PHENOTYPE; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPORATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; UNIDENTIFIED CLONING VECTOR; UNIDENTIFIED SHUTTLE VECTOR;

EID: 0142104444     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.5767-5771.2003     Document Type: Article

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