Strategy for cloning large gene assemblages as illustrated using the phenylacetate and polyhydroxyalkanoate gene clusters

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 5019-5025

  García, Belén ^a   Olivera, Elías R ^a   Sandoval, Ángel ^a   Arias Barrau, Elsa ^a   Arias, Sagrario ^a   Naharro, Germán ^a   Luengo, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOPOLYMERS; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING; GENES;

BIOPLASTICS; PLASMIDS; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

PHENYLACETIC ACID; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE ISOLATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENYLACETATES; PLASMIDS; POLYESTERS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 4143059408     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.8.5019-5025.2004     Document Type: Article

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