The no-SCAR (Scarless Cas9 Assisted Recombineering) system for genome editing in Escherichia coli

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Reisch, Chris R ^a   Prather, Kristala L J ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; PROCEDURES; RNA EDITING;

CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA EDITING;

EID: 84944320385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15096     Document Type: Article

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