Construction of a Prophage-Free Variant of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 for Use as a Platform Strain for Basic Research and Industrial Biotechnology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6006-6015

  Baumgart, Meike ^a   Unthan, Simon ^a   Rückert, Christian ^b   Sivalingam, Jasintha ^a   Grünberger, Alexander ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^b   Bott, Michael ^a   Noack, Stephan ^a   Frunzke, Julia ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENHANCED YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GENOME REARRANGEMENTS; INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION; RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PROTEINS;

GENES;

AMINO ACID; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROPHAGE; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84884188636     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01634-13     Document Type: Article

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