Mutant generation by allelic exchange and genome resequencing of the biobutanol organism Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ehsaan, Muhammad ^a   Kuit, Wouter ^a,b   Zhang, Ying ^a   Cartman, Stephen T ^a,d   Heap, John T ^a,c   Winzer, Klaus ^a   Minton, Nigel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MicCell Bioservices BV   (Netherlands)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Invista   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exchange; Clostridium acetobutylicum; codA; Counter selection marker; In frame deletion; pyrE; Whole genome re sequencing

Indexed keywords

AMYLASES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COSMOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; RESTORATION;

CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CODA; PYRE; SELECTION MARKER; WHOLE GENOME RE-SEQUENCING;

GENES;

ALLELE; BACTERIUM; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; PHENOTYPE;

CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84952938924     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0410-0     Document Type: Article

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