A new platform for ultra-high density Staphylococcus aureus transposon libraries

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Santiago, Marina ^a   Matano, Leigh M ^a   Moussa, Samir H ^a   Gilmore, Michael S ^a,b   Walker, Suzanne ^a   Meredith, Timothy C ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential genes; Functional genomics; Small colony variants; Staphylococcus aureus; Temperature sensitivity; Transposon library

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BKDA1 GENE; BKDA2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNAJ GENE; DNAK GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEAT STRESS; HEMY GENE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ILVE GENE; ISPA GENE; LYRA GENE; MPRF GENE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; ORF5 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEPF GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSPOSON; YYCH GENE; YYCI GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; TEMPERATURE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84926324674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1361-3     Document Type: Article

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