Experimental basis for a stable plasmid, pLS30, to shuttle between Bacillus subtilis species by conjugational transfer

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 557-561

  Sakaya, Nagayoshi ^a   Kaneko, Shinya ^a   Matsunaga, Satoko ^a   Itaya, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KAGAKU INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus natto; Conjugational transfer; Plasmid; Rolling circle replication; Transformation

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHIMERA; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REP GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33646375207     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj058     Document Type: Article

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