Autoexcision of bacterial artificial chromosome facilitated by terminal repeat-mediated homologous recombination: A novel approach for generating traceless genetic mutants of herpesviruses

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2871-2880

  Zhou, Fuchun ^a   Li, Qiuhua ^a   Wong, Scott W ^b   Gao, Shou Jiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HERPES VIRUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHADINOVIRUS; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FIBROBLASTS; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHADINOVIRUS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 17;

EID: 77649105343     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01734-09     Document Type: Article

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