Transfer of megaplasmid pKB1 from the rubber-degrading bacterium Gordonia westfalica strain Kb1 to related bacteria and its modification

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1317-1327

  Bröker, Daniel ^a   Arenskötter, Matthias ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Conjugational transfer; Electroporation; Genetic manipulation; Gordonia; Heavy metal resistance; Megaplasmid; Suicide plasmid

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CELL CULTURE; DNA; GENE ENCODING; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CONJUGATIONAL TRANSFER; ELECTROPORATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GORDONIA; HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE; MEGAPLASMID; SUICIDE PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; PLASMID DNA;

BACTERIUM; CADMIUM; PLASMID; RUBBER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA MODIFICATION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GORDONIA; GORDONIA POLYISOPRENIVORANS; GORDONIA WESTFALICA; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS OPACUS; SUICIDE GENE;

CADMIUM; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ELECTROPORATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GORDONIA BACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PLASMIDS; RHODOCOCCUS; RUBBER; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GORDONIA POLYISOPRENIVORANS; GORDONIA WESTFALICA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; RHODOCOCCUS OPACUS;

EID: 38049144593     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-007-1262-8     Document Type: Article

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