VEX-capture: A new technique that allows in vivo excision, cloning, and broad-host-range transfer of large bacterial genomic DNA segments

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 297-308

  Wilson, James W ^a   Figurski, David H ^b   Nickerson, Cheryl A ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Broad host range; Cre; Genomic island; Horizontal gene transfer; IncP plasmid; loxP; R995; rtsA; Salmonella typhimurium; Vector mediated excision

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 2342659636     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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