Small multicopy, non-integrative shuttle vectors based on the plasmid pRN1 for Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Sulfolobus solfataricus, model organisms of the (cren-)archaea

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Berkner, Silvia ^a   Grogan, Dennis ^b   Albers, Sonja Verena ^c   Lipps, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOSIDASE; PLASMID VECTOR; PROTEIN PRN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUCOSIDASE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS BETA GLYCOSIDASE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS BETA-GLYCOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MARKER; MESOPHILE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOACIDOPHILIC ARCHAEON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCOSIDASES; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 34547647772     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm449     Document Type: Article

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