Genetic tools to enhance the study of gene function and regulation in Staphylococcus aureus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2218-2224

  Bose, Jeffrey L ^a   Fey, Paul D ^a   Bayles, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHROMOSOMAL MUTATION; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ENHANCED YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ERYTHROMYCIN RESISTANCE; FLUORESCENT REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FLUORESCENCE; GENES; LIBRARIES; PROTEINS;

ION EXCHANGE;

PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MUTATION; PLASMID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84874596495     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00136-13     Document Type: Article

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