Rational design of a plasmid origin that replicates efficiently in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Bryksin, Anton V ^a   Matsumura, Ichiro ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY;

ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEIFSONIA SHINSHUENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPLICATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 78149455681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013244     Document Type: Article

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