Improved inverse PCR scheme for metagenome walking

BioTechniques

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-188

  Uchiyama, Taku ^a,b   Watanabe, Kazuya ^a  

^a MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND EVALUATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHITIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; REACTION KINETICS;

METAGENOME WALKING; METAGENOMES; RALSTONIA EUTROPHA; RALSTONIA GENOMES;

GENES;

CHITINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME WALKING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RALSTONIA;

CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; ESCHERICHIA; RALSTONIA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHITINASE; CHROMOSOME WALKING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RALSTONIA;

EID: 33748559766     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112210     Document Type: Article

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