BRED: A simple and powerful tool for constructing mutant and recombinant bacteriophage genomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Marinelli, Laura J ^a   Piuri, Mariana ^a   Swigoňová, Zuzana ^a   Balachandran, Amrita ^a   Oldfield, Lauren M ^a   van Kessel, Julia C ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ELECTROPORATION; EVALUATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENE; VIRUS GENOME;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPORATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, VIRAL; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 58149105452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003957     Document Type: Article

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