sacB-5-fluoroorotic acid-pyrE-based bidirectional selection for integration of unmarked alleles into the chromosome of Rhodobacter capsulatus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3014-3024

  Yano, Takahiro ^a   Sanders, Carsten ^a   Catalano, John ^a   Daldal, Fevzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

GENE CARTRIDGES; MODEL ORGANISMS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATIONS;

BACTERIA;

FLUOROOROTIC ACID; LEVANSUCRASE; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE; URACIL;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PLASMID; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SACB 5 GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OROTIC ACID; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

EID: 20444407157     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.6.3014-3024.2005     Document Type: Article

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