Recombineering mycobacteria and their phages

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 851-857

  van Kessel, Julia C ^a   Marinelli, Laura J ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHE9C PROTEIN; EXONUCLEASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EXONUCLEASES; GENE DELETION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINASES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM PHAGE CHE9C;

EID: 54149095221     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2014     Document Type: Article

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