Nitrogen-Regulated Hypermutator Strain of Synechococcus sp. for Use in In Vivo Artificial Evolution

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6427-6433

  Emlyn Jones, Daniel ^a   Price, G Dean ^a   Andrews, T John ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; DNA; NUTRITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS;

MUTATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

MUTAGENIC AGENT; NITROGEN; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; MUTS GENE; NIRA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PHENOTYPE; RIFAMPIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 0242573463     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6427-6433.2003     Document Type: Article

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