Taking phage integration to the next level as a genetic tool for mycobacteria

Gene

Volumn 468, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 8-19

  Huff, Jason ^a   Czyz, Agata ^b   Landick, Robert ^b   Niederweis, Michael ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Copy number; Expression; Modular design; PAL5000; Plasmid; Transcription termination

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CELL CLONE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONE CELLS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM; PLASMIDS; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77957001031     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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