An efficient stress-free strategy to displace stable bacterial plasmids

BioTechniques

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 223-228

  Hale, Lisa ^a,b   Lazos, Orestis ^a,c   Haines, Anthony S ^a   Thomas, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Mobile genetic elements; Plasmid curing; Post segregational killing; Replication; Virulence

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL PLASMID DISPLACEMENT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLONE; CLONING VECTOR; CULTURE MEDIUM; CURING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; REPLICON; STRESS; TECHNIQUE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUCROSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77954074182     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000113366     Document Type: Article

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