Natural transformation with synthetic gene cassettes: New tools for integron research and biotechnology

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3349-3360

  Gestal, Alicia M ^a   Liew, Elissa F ^a   Coleman, Nicholas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUOROMETRY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SYNTHETIC GENE CASSETTE; WILD TYPE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; INTEGRONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 82555191271     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.051623-0     Document Type: Article

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