Strategy for chromosomal gene targeting in RecA-deficient Escherichia coli strains

BioTechniques

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 405-408

  Gamper, Marianne ^a   Kast, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; RNA;

CHROMOSOMAL GENE TARGETING; CHROMOSOMAL MUTATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; SUICIDE VECTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

FENCLONINE; KANAMYCIN; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CLONING VECTOR; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; RECA GENE; REPLICON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 15244362073     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/05383ST03     Document Type: Article

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