Curing of plasmid pXO1 from bacillus anthracis using plasmid incompatibility

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Xiankai ^a   Wang, Dongshu ^a   Wang, Huagui ^a   Feng, Erling ^a   Zhu, Li ^a   Wang, Hengliang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PXO1 GENE; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WILD TYPE; BACTERIAL COUNT; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPLICON; REPRODUCIBILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPLICON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84855681106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029875     Document Type: Article

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