Application of BRED technology to construct recombinant D29 reporter phage expressing EGFP

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 166-172

  da Silva, Joas L ^a   Piuri, Mariana ^b   Broussard, Gregory ^c   J Marinelli, Laura ^c   Bastos, Gisele M ^a   Hirata, Rosario D C ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^c   Hirata, Mario H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Green fluorescent protein; Mycobacterium; Recombineering

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE RECOMBINEERING OF ELECTROPORATED DNA TECHNOLOGY; CYTOLYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ELECTROPORATION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LYSOGENY; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 84879507975     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12171     Document Type: Article

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