One-step plasmid construction for generation of knock-out mutants in cyanobacteria: Studies of glycogen metabolism in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-221

  Jacobsen, Jacob H ^a   Rosgaard, Lisa ^a   Sakuragi, Yumiko ^a   Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gene inactivation; Glycogen metabolism; Glycogen phosphorylase; Homologous recombination; Natural transformation; Uracil specific excision reagent

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN PHOSPHORYLASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN PHOSPHORYLASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 7002;

EID: 79953843904     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-010-9613-1     Document Type: Article

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