Genetic Transformation of a Clinical (Genital Tract), Plasmid-Free Isolate of Chlamydia trachomatis: Engineering the Plasmid as a Cloning Vector

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yibing ^a   Kahane, Simona ^b   Cutcliffe, Lesley T ^a   Skilton, Rachel J ^a   Lambden, Paul R ^a   Persson, Kenneth ^c   Bjartling, Carina ^d   Clarke, Ian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Malmo University Hospital   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLYCOGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOTYPE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOME; CLONING VECTOR; CYTOPLASM; DENSITY GRADIENT; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRACHOMA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA PRIMERS; GALACTOSIDES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INCLUSION BODIES; INDOLES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMIDS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84875060222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059195     Document Type: Article

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