Isolation of conditional expression mutants in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by transposon mutagenesis

Tuberculosis

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 569-578

  Forti, Francesca ^a   Mauri, Veronica ^a   Deh, Gianni ^a   Ghisotti, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Essential genes; Inducible promoters; Mutagenesis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Transposon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FTSK PROTEIN; GLF PROTEIN; INFB PROTEIN; METC PROTEIN; PYRD PROTEIN; SECY PROTEIN; TUF PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRISTINAMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 81155160930     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: 1873281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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