Disruption of a type II endonuclease (TDE0911) enables Treponema dentico 35405 to accept an unmethylated shuttle vector

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4573-4578

  Bian, Jiang ^a   Li, Chunhao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACTS; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ENDONUCLEASES; GENETIC MANIPULATIONS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; RESTRICTION DIGESTION; RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SOUTHERN BLOT ANALYSIS; TYPE II;

DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

VECTORS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; DIGESTION; DISEASE VECTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMUNOASSAY; ORAL HEALTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA ATCC 35405;

EID: 79960085695     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00417-11     Document Type: Article

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