High-throughput analysis of gene essentiality and sporulation in Clostridium difficile

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Dembek, Marcin ^a,b   Barquist, Lars ^c   Boinett, Christine J ^d   Cain, Amy K ^d   Mayho, Matthew ^d   Lawley, Trevor D ^d   Fairweather, Neil F ^a   Fagan, Robert P ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

TRANSPOSON;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC TESTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84929494200     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02383-14     Document Type: Article

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