Silent mischief: Bacteriophage Mu insertions contaminate products of Escherichia coli random mutagenesis performed using suicidal transposon delivery plasmids mobilized by broad-host-range RP4 conjugative machinery

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6418-6427

  Ferrières, Lionel ^a,b   Hémery, Gaëlle ^a,b   Nham, Toan ^a,b   Guérout, Anne Marie ^a,b   Mazel, Didier ^a,b   Beloin, Christophe ^a,b   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; HOST RANGE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIOPHAGE MU; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE MU; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78649653296     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00621-10     Document Type: Article

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