pB264, a small, mobilizable, temperature sensitive plasmid from Rhodococcus

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-33

  Lessard, Philip A ^a   O'Brien, Xian M ^a   Currie, Devin H ^a   Sinskey, Anthony J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; PLASMID DNA; PLASMID VECTOR;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; REPLICON; RHODOCOCCUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TEMPERATURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS SP.; VECTORS;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; RHODOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 2942612200     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-4-15     Document Type: Article

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