Rapid engineering of bacterial reporter gene fusions by using red recombination

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4234-4242

  Gerlach, Roman G ^a   Hölzer, Stefanie U ^a   Jäckel, Daniela ^a   Hensel, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOMES; GENE REGULATION; PLASMIDS; TRANSPOSON MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA; DNA; PROTEINS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; RECOMBINANT DNA; RECOMBINASE;

DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATION; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; ENTEROBACTER; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL LINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 34447517753     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00509-07     Document Type: Article

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