Efficient point mutagenesis in mycobacteria using single-stranded DNA recombineering: Characterization of antimycobacterial drug targets

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1094-1107

  Van Kessel, Julia C ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 38849190026     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06109.x     Document Type: Article

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