Improved seamless mutagenesis by recombineering using ccdB for counterselection

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Hailong ^a,b,c   Bian, Xiaoying ^c,d   Xia, Liqiu ^a   Ding, Xuezhi ^a   Müller, Rolf ^d   Zhang, Youming ^a,c,e   Fu, Jun ^b   Stewart, A Francis ^b  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CONTROL OF CELL DEATH A PROTEIN; CONTROL OF CELL DEATH B PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CCDA GENE; CCDB GENE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; COUNTERSELECTION; CULTURE OPTIMIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINEERING; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS TITRATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA GYRASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84898949923     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1339     Document Type: Article

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