A Conjugation-Based System for Genetic Analysis of Group II Intron Splicing in Lactococcus lactis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1991-1998

  Klein, Joanna R ^a   Chen, Yuqing ^a   Manias, Dawn A ^a   Zhuo, Jin ^b   Zhou, Liang ^a   Peebles, Craig L ^b   Dunny, Gary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN LTRB; RELAXASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; EXON; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MATING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; INTRONS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; RNA SPLICING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNIDENTIFIED SHUTTLE VECTOR;

EID: 1642321713     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.7.1991-1998.2004     Document Type: Article

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