Establishment of markerless gene deletion tools in thermophilic Bacillus smithii and construction of multiple mutant strains

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bosma, Elleke F ^a   Van de Weijer, Antonius H P ^a   Van der Vlist, Laurens ^a   de Vos, Willem M ^a   Van der Oost, John ^a   Van Kranenburg, Richard ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Corbion ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacillus smithii; Counter selection system; Lactate dehydrogenase; Pyruvate dehydrogenase; Sporulation; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS SMITHII;

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE (NADP+);

BACILLUS; FERMENTATION; GENE DELETION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; PROCEDURES;

BACILLUS; FERMENTATION; GENE DELETION; KETONE OXIDOREDUCTASES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 84935064381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-015-0286-5     Document Type: Article

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