Adaptation of the yeast URA3 selection system to gram-negative bacteria and generation of a ΔbetCDE Pseudomonas putida strain

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 883-892

  Galvão, Teca Calcagno ^a   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CLONING; DNA; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; YEAST;

ADAPTATIONS; DNA SEGMENTS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PROMOTERS;

BACTERIA;

DNA; FLUOROOROTIC ACID; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; URACIL;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; CLONING; CLONING VECTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLINE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; OPERON; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 13544273854     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.883-892.2005     Document Type: Article

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