Conjugal transfer of plasmid R6K γ ori minireplicon derivatives from Escherichia coli to various genera of pathogenic bacteria

Current Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 549-553

  Grudniak, Anna M ^a   Kraczkiewicz Dowjat, Anna ^a   Wolska, Krystyna I ^a   Wild, Jadwiga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 35448938921     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-007-9032-5     Document Type: Article

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