New selectable marker for manipulating the simple genomes of Mycoplasma species

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4429-4432

  Algire, Mikkel A ^a   Lartigue, Carole ^a   Thomas, David W ^a,c   Assad Garcia, Nacyra ^a   Glass, John I ^a   Merryman, Chuck ^a,b  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Building 1 ^*  (United States)

^c Biotechnology Industry Organization   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; PROTEIN; PUROMYCIN; PUROMYCIN N ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOSTASIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENOME; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ALBONIGER;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MYCOPLASMA; PUROMYCIN;

EID: 70349342827     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00388-09     Document Type: Article

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