In vivo random mutagenesis of Bacillus subtilis by use of TnYLB-1, a mariner-based transposon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 327-333

  Le Breton, Yoann ^a   Mohapatra, Nrusingh Prasad ^a,b   Haldenwang, W G ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; DNA; GENES; MUTAGENESIS;

B. SUBTILIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; RANDOM TRANSPOSITION; SPORULATION GENES;

BACTERIA;

AMPICILLIN; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; TRANSPOSASE;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; DNA; GENE; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ERM GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIMAR1 GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; KINA GENE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; LYSA GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPOROGENESIS; SPOVT GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSPOSON; YBAN GENE; YJZ GENE; YQFI GENE; YUBB GENE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SPORE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 33644857535     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.327-333.2006     Document Type: Article

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