Establishment of a markerless mutation delivery system in Bacillus subtilis stimulated by a double-strand break in the chromosome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Shi, Ting ^a,b   Wang, Guanglu ^a,b   Wang, Zhiwen ^a,b   Fu, Jing ^a,b   Chen, Tao ^a,b   Zhao, Xueming ^a,b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SynBio Research Platform   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84896698691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081370     Document Type: Article

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