Properties and construction of plasmid pFW213, a shuttle vector with the oral Streptococcus origin of replication

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3967-3974

  Chen, Yi Ywan M ^a   Shieh, Hui Ru ^a   Lin, Cheng Tzer ^a   Liang, Shin Yi ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPY NUMBER; CRYPTIC PLASMIDS; DNA FRAGMENT; E. COLI; HUMAN BODIES; MULTIPLE CLONING; OPEN READING FRAME; REP GENE; REPLICATION PROTEINS; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SPECTINOMYCIN; THETA REPLICATION;

CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

DNA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPECTINOMYCIN;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; COLONIZATION; FRAGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PLASMID; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABILIZATION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; PLASMID; REPLICON; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PARASANGUINIS;

EID: 79960085696     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02828-10     Document Type: Article

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