Xer site-specific recombination, an efficient tool to introduce unmarked deletions into mycobacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5312-5316

  Cascioferro, Alessandro ^a,b   Boldrin, Francesca ^a   Serafini, Agnese ^a   Provvedi, Roberta ^a   Palù, Giorgio ^a   Manganelli, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC MANIPULATIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SELECTION MARKER; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION;

BACTERIUM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROCEDURES;

GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77955562436     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00382-10     Document Type: Article

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