Genome engineering in Bacillus anthracis using cre recombinase

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 682-693

  Pomerantsev, Andrei P ^a   Sitaraman, Ramakrishnan ^a,b   Galloway, Craig R ^a   Kivovich, Violetta ^a   Leppla, Stephen H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CRE RECOMBINASE; MARKER; PLASMID VECTOR; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE P1; CAPBCAD GENE; CROSSING OVER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LOXP GENE; MCRB GENE; MRR GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEPM GENE; PLASMID; PLASMID XO2; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOOA GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 29644438843     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.1.682-693.2006     Document Type: Article

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