Modification of the mycobacteriophage Ms6 attP core allows the integration of multiple vectors into different tRNAala T-loops in slow- and fast-growing mycobacteria

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dos Vultos, Tiago ^a   Méderlé, Isabelle ^a   Abadie, Valérie ^a   Pimentel, Madalena ^b   Moniz Pereira, José ^b   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a   Reyrat, Jean Marc ^a,c   Winter, Nathalie ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE TRANSFER RNA; BCG VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; RNA STRUCTURE;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM PHAGE MS6; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 33846590999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-7-47     Document Type: Article

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