Construction of new cloning, lacZ reporter and scarless-markerless suicide vectors for genetic studies in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

Plasmid

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 211-222

  Juárez Rodríguez, María Dolores ^a   Torres Escobar, Ascención ^a   Demuth, Donald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans; Cloning vector; Suicide vector

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; SUCROSE;

AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLONING VECTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; LSRRK GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; QSEB GENE; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SUICIDE VECTOR;

AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPLICATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, TRANSGENIC, SUICIDE; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARDIOBACTERIUM HOMINIS; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; ESCHERICHIA; HAEMOPHILUS; KINGELLA KINGAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84877152821     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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