Expanding the Repertoire of Gene Tools for Precise Manipulation of the Clostridium difficile Genome: Allelic Exchange Using pyrE Alleles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ng, Yen Kuan ^a   Ehsaan, Muhammad ^a   Philip, Sheryl ^a   Collery, Mark M ^a   Janoir, Clare ^b   Collignon, Anne ^b   Cartman, Stephen T ^a   Minton, Nigel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ALLELE; ALLELE COUPLED EXCHANGE TECHNOLOGY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CWP84 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MTLD GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRE GENE; RIBOTYPING; SPO0A GENE; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84873529552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056051     Document Type: Article

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