Utility of the clostridial site-specific recombinase TnpX to clone toxic-product-encoding genes and selectively remove Genomic DNA fragments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3597-3603

  Adams, Vicki ^a   Bantwal, Radhika ^a   Stevenson, Lauren ^a   Cheung, Jackie K ^a   Awad, Milena M ^a   Nicholson, Joel ^a   Carter, Glen P ^a   Mackin, Kate E ^a   Rood, Julian I ^a   Lyras, Dena ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATIONS; PHENOTYPIC FEATURES; RESISTANCE GENES;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; RECOMBINASE; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE; TNPX PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901353487     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.04285-13     Document Type: Article

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