Development of a markerless gene deletion system for Streptococcus zooepidemicus: Functional characterization of hyaluronan synthase gene

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 97, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 8629-8636

  Sun, Xiaoyan ^a   Yang, Dandan ^a   Wang, Yangyang ^a   Geng, Hongran ^b   He, Xihong ^a   Liu, Hao ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b China National Center for Biotechnology Development   (China)

Author keywords

Hyaluronic acid; Markerless; sacB; Streptococcus zooepidemicus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DEFECTS; GENE ENCODING; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; EXPRESSION CASSETTE; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MARKERLESS; SACB; STREPTOCOCCUS ZOOEPIDEMICUS;

HYALURONIC ACID;

BACTERIAL VECTOR; HYALURONIC ACID;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE VECTOR; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; PATHOGEN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUICIDE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HASA GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP. ZOOEPIDEMICUS;

GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 84885369636     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-5058-8     Document Type: Article

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