Recombineering in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Nature Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-152

  van Kessel, Julia C ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE VIII; EXONUCLEASE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 60; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 61; RECT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONUCLEASES; GENE TARGETING; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33947357684     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth996     Document Type: Article

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