Use of a mariner-based transposon mutagenesis system to isolate Clostridium perfringens mutants deficient in gliding motility

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 629-636

  Liu, Hualan ^a   Bouillaut, Laurent ^b   Sonenshein, Abraham L ^b   Melville, Stephen B ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SAGA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CLONE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOVEMENT; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84873026624     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01288-12     Document Type: Article

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