Transposon-Based Strategies for Microbial Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2003, Pages 3-29

  Hayes, Finbarr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Mutagenesis; Pentapeptide scanning; Signature tagged mutagenesis; Transposon

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; EPITOPE; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA MICROARRAY; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTEGRON; MICROORGANISM; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPOSON; YEAST;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0348047326     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.37.110801.142807     Document Type: Review

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