Transposon mutagenesis of the extremely thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27

Extremophiles

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 221-228

  Carr, Jennifer F ^a   Gregory, Steven T ^a   Dahlberg, Albert E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremophile; Gap repair; Genetics; Recombination; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL DNA; PYRUVIC ACID; TRANSPOSON;

CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSPOSON;

ARGININE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; PYRUVIC ACID; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 84939882656     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-014-0663-8     Document Type: Article

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