A new family of conditional replicating plasmids and their cognate Escherichia coli host strains

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 455-461

  Matsumoto Mashimo, Chiho ^a,b   Guerout, Anne Marie ^a   Mazel, Didier ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b OSAKA DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Mutagenesis; Suicide plasmids

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; PLASMIDS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 3142608853     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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