Construction of a pair of practical Nocardia-Escherichia coli shuttle vectors

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-47

  Chiba, Kazuhiro ^a   Hoshino, Yasutaka ^a   Ishino, Keiko ^a   Kogure, Takahisa ^b   Mikami, Yuzuru ^b   Uehara, Yoshimasa ^a   Ishikawa, Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR SIZE; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

EID: 33947386536     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.jjid.2007.45     Document Type: Article

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