Expanding and understanding the genetic toolbox of the hyperthermophilic genus Sulfolobus

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-101

  Wagner, Michaela ^a   Berkner, Silvia ^b   Ajon, Malgorzata ^c   Driessen, Arnold J M ^c   Lipps, Georg ^d   Albers, Sonja Verena ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

Archaeon; Deletion mutant; Genetics; Plasmid; Recombination; Sulfolobus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN LACS; PROTEIN PYREF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DELETION MUTANT; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SULFOLOBUS; CHROMOSOME; CROSSING OVER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; PLASMID;

ARCHAEA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

CHROMOSOMES, ARCHAEAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 59749097200     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0370097     Document Type: Article

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