Knockout and pullout recombineering for naturally transformable Burkholderia thailandensis and Burkholderia pseudomallei

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1085-1104

  Kang, Yun ^a   Norris, Michael H ^a   Wilcox, Bruce A ^a   Tuanyok, Apichai ^b   Keim, Paul S ^b   Hoang, Tung T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; LAMBDA RED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECOMBINEERING;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 79960228470     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.346     Document Type: Article

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