A dual lethal system to enhance containment of recombinant micro-organisms

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3595-3601

  Torres, Begoña ^a,c   Jaenecke, Susanne ^b,d   Timmis, Kenneth N ^b   García, José L ^a   Díaz, Eduardo ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^d EuMeCom   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; COLICIN; COLICIN E3; IMMUNITY E3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOST CELL; LETHALITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TARGET CELL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0346252344     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26618-0     Document Type: Article

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