Letting Escherichia coli teach me about genome engineering

Genetics

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1205-1214

  Shapiro, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; BACTERIUM COLONY; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VIVO STUDY; LIQUID; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE MU; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 71549164088     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.110007     Document Type: Review

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