Development of genetic methods and construction of a chromosomal glnK 1 mutant in Methanosarcina mazei strain Gö1

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 273, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 290-298

  Ehlers, Claudia ^a,d   Weidenbach, Katrin ^a,d   Veit, Katharina ^a,d   Deppenmeier, Uwe ^b   Metcalf, William W ^c   Schmitz, Ruth A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

GlnK; Liposome meditated transformation; Methanosarcina mazei strain G 1; Nitrogen control

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; METHANOSARCINA; MUTANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, ARCHAEAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPOSOMES; METHANOSARCINA; MUTATION; PUROMYCIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ARCHAEA; METHANOSARCINA MAZEI GO1;

EID: 23744474252     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-1128-7     Document Type: Article

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