Allelic replacement in Staphylococcus aureus with inducible counter-selection

Plasmid

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-63

  Bae, Taeok ^a   Schneewind, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic replacement; Antisense RNA; Phage lambda recombination; rocA; secY; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; PLASMID VECTOR; SECY PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE;

1-PYRROLINE-5-CARBOXYLATE DEHYDROGENASE; ALLELES; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, ANTISENSE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TETRACYCLINES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 29144482705     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

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