Rapid recombination screening to test gene essentiality demonstrates that pyrH is essential in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 450-458

  Robertson, Dina ^a   Carroll, Paul ^a   Parish, Tanya ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Essential genes; Homologous recombination; Mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HYGROMYCIN RESISTANCE GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SCREENING TEST;

GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 34548239766     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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