An improved counterselectable marker system for mycobacterial recombination using galK and 2-deoxy-galactose

Gene

Volumn 470, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 31-36

  Barkan, Daniel ^a   Stallings, Christina L ^a   Glickman, Michael S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterselectable markers; Galactokinase; Recombination; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGALACTOSE; GALACTOKINASE; HYGROMYCIN; LEVANSUCRASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUCOSE; GALACTOKINASE; GENETIC MARKERS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 78349305027     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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