Mini-Tn7 transposons for site-specific tagging of bacteria with fluorescent proteins

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 726-732

  Lambertsen, Lotte ^a   Sternberg, Claus ^a   Molin, Søren ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PHOTOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; OPERON; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPORTER GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAINING; TRANSPOSON;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RRNA OPERON; STAINING AND LABELING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 3042786311     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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