Plasmid electroporation of Sinorhizobium strains: The role of the restriction gene hsdR in type strain Rm1021

Plasmid

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 128-135

  Ferri, Lorenzo ^a,b   Gori, Alessandro ^a   Biondi, Emanuele G ^a   Mengoni, Alessio ^a   Bazzicalupo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene transfer; HsdR; Restriction; Sinorhizobium; Transformation

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN HSDR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; ELECTROPORATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SINORHIZOBIUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 77950369784     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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