Genetic tools for Sulfolobus spp.: Vectors and first applications

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-230

  Berkner, Silvia ^a   Lipps, Georg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Archaea; Crenarchaea; Knockouts; Selectable markers; Shuttle vector

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTOSE; URACIL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC STABILITY; GENUS; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPLICON; REPORTER GENE; SHORT SURVEY; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SULFOLOBUS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 49749147488     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-008-0392-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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