pTn5cat: A Tn5-derived genetic element to facilitate insertion mutagenesis, promoter probing, physical mapping, cloning, and marker exchange in phytopathogenic and other gram-negative bacteria

Plasmid

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-214

  Marsch Moreno, Rodolfo ^a   Hernández Guzmán, Gustavo ^a   Alvarez Morales, Ariel ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cat gene; ColE1; Promoter probe; Pseudomonas syringae; Transposon

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TRANSPOSON; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. PHASEOLICOLA; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 0345698706     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1340     Document Type: Article

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