Efficient gene transfer in bacterial cell chains

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Babic, Ana ^a,b   Berkmen, Melanie B ^a,c   Lee, Catherine A ^a   Grossman, Alan D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; INTEGRATIVE AND CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT ICEBS1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79956108843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00027-11     Document Type: Article

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