Conditional gene silencing of multiple genes with antisense RNAs and generation of a mutator strain of Escherichia coli

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Nakashima, Nobutaka ^a   Tamura, Tomohiro ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETATE KINASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN MUTD; PROTEIN MUTS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTISENSE VECTOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INVERTED REPEAT; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VECTORS; MUTATION; OPERON; RNA, ANTISENSE;

EID: 69849092387     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp498     Document Type: Article

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