Engineering of tellurite-resistant genetic tools for single-copy chromosomal analysis of Burkholderia spp. and characterization of the Burkholderia thailandensis betBA operon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4015-4027

  Kang, Yun ^a   Norris, Michael H ^a   Barrett, Ashley R ^a   Wilcox, Bruce A ^a   Hoang, Tung T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ASPARTATE; BIOLUMINESCENT IMAGING; BIOTERRORISM AGENT; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY; GALACTOSIDASE; GENETIC MANIPULATIONS; GENETIC TOOLS; MARINER TRANSPOSON; OSMOTIC STRESS; REPORTER GENE; RESISTANCE GENES; SELECTABLE MARKERS; SELECTION BASED; SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; SITE-SPECIFIC; TRANSPOSASE;

ANTIBIOTICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRAIN; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

VECTORS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTIC ACID; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETAINE ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CHOLINE; CHOLINE DEHYDROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; TELLURITE; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOTERRORISM; CHROMOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUSION GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OSMOTIC STRESS; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; ASPARTATE-SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA; CHOLINE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELLURIUM;

BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 67149113273     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02733-08     Document Type: Article

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