Unmarked gene deletion and host-vector system for the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus

Extremophiles

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 735-746

  Deng, Ling ^a,b   Zhu, Haojun ^b   Chen, Zhengjun ^a,b   Liang, Yun Xiang ^a   She, Qunxin ^b  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

pyrEF marker; pyrEFlacS deletion mutant; S. islandicus host vector system; Unmarked gene deletion

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; DIPLOIDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLASMID; SULFOLOBUS;

ARCHAEA; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DIPLOIDY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFOLOBUS;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS;

EID: 70349462511     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-009-0254-2     Document Type: Article

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