New integrative method to generate Bacillus subtilis recombinant strains free of selection markers

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 7241-7250

  Brans, Alain ^a   Filée, Patrice ^a   Chevigné, Andy ^a   Claessens, Aurore ^a   Joris, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMARKERS; DNA SEQUENCES; ENZYMES; GENES; STRAIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; LYSINE; SELECTION MARKERS;

BACTERIA;

BETA LACTAMASE; SPECTINOMYCIN;

GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SELECTION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE BLA1; GENE CASSETTE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MARKERS; LYSINE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECTINOMYCIN;

BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 10444251869     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.12.7241-7250.2004     Document Type: Article

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