Visualization of protoplast fusion and quantitation of recombination in fused protoplasts of auxotrophic strains of Escherichia coli

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 45-52

  Dai, Minghua ^a   Ziesman, Sara ^b   Ratcliffe, Thomas ^b   Gill, Ryan T ^b   Copley, Shelley D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; GENES; STRAIN;

GENOME SHUFFLING; MUTATIONS; PROTOPLAST; PROTOPLAST FUSION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL FUSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROVIDENCIA ALCALIFACIENS;

EID: 13844256130     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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