DIY series of genetic cassettes useful in construction of versatile vectors specific for Alphaproteobacteria

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 166-174

  Dziewit, Lukasz ^a   Adamczuk, Marcin ^a   Szuplewska, Magdalena ^a   Bartosik, Dariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alphaproteobacteria; Genetic cassette; Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686; Plasmid; Shuttle vector

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VECTOR; KANAMYCIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CAULOBACTERALES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS; PARACOCCUS AMINOPHILUS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIALES; RHODOBACTERALES;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; PLASMIDS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CAULOBACTERALES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PARACOCCUS AMINOPHILUS; RHIZOBIALES; RHODOBACTERALES;

EID: 79959744352     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2011.04.016     Document Type: Article

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