Construction of an Enterococcus faecalis Tn917-mediated-gene-disruption library offers insight into Tn917 insertion patterns

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 7280-7289

  Garsin, Danielle A ^a,d   Urbach, Jonathan ^b   Huguet Tapia, Jose C ^c   Peters, Joseph E ^c   Ausubel, Frederick M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE LIBRARY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 6044247516     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.21.7280-7289.2004     Document Type: Article

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